Science Controversies
Healthier white bread could be in stores by 2025, after genes controlling wheat fiber content identified
An international group of scientists led by Rothamsted Research and the John Innes Centre have opened the door to healthier ...
Non GMO salt? Gluten free orange juice? No hormone-added chicken? Study suggests many consumers willingly overpay even when they learn food label claims are bogus
Previous studies, as well as market sales data, show some consumers are willing to pay a premium for redundant or ...
Viewpoint: AI has one glaring weakness in health care: There’s no human touch
It might be that, as physicians who work in a public health care system that relies on fax machines, carbon ...
Once ‘misinformed and misled’ about GMOs, Ugandan farmers eager to grow disease-resistant cassava
Farmers from five districts in the West Nile region in North Western Uganda are upbeat about the prospect of growing ...
Zimbabwe lifts GMO corn import ban to avert famine amid worst drought in 40 years
Zimbabwe has quietly lifted a ban on imports of genetically modified corn for the first time in 12 years as ...
Failed HIV vaccine study is ‘another frustrating defeat’ in the fight against AIDS
The failure-ridden search for a vaccine that can stop the AIDS virus has delivered yet another frustrating defeat. The HIV ...
Gene-editing ‘vaccine’ could radically change heart disease risk
As many as 50 percent of heart attacks strike without any warning signs and in individuals with no history of heart disease. When ...
‘What’s in my weed?’ Organic certification for cannabis coming soon
Do you know what’s in your weed? For the majority of cannabis consumers, the answer is a resounding no—despite claims ...
10 common misconceptions about China’s coronavirus
“There is so much misinformation out there,” said Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., the Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer at NYMC, ...
US life expectancy edges upward as cancer death rate drops
The number of fatal drug overdoses declined for the first time in 28 years, and U.S. life expectancy at birth ticked upward for the ...
GMO Golden Rice meets safety standards set by Philippines, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, assessment shows
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists as a major public health nutrition problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Severe ...
Viewpoint: Confronting coronavirus outbreak requires us to cope with our own ‘paralyzing’ fears
Fear is a primal emotion, and to pretend that the medical staff are any less susceptible than the general public ...
Latest Roundup-cancer trial canceled, fueling speculation of a final settlement in glyphosate litigation
A Roundup cancer trial in St. Louis, Missouri, will not open on [Feb. 5] as expected, a court spokesman said ...
Viewpoint: Booming stem cell market ‘conflates hype with reality’, damaging legitimate research
Stem cells sold at clinics are driving what’s thought to be a $2 billion global industry. Facebook pages announce seminars ...
Leaked proposals suggest EU may assess CRISPR gene editing to ‘improve sustainability’ of food production
More leaked drafts of the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy reveal how the [European] Commission’s plan to make EU food ...
Post-Brexit UK may accept GMO crop imports from US, Prime Minister Boris Johnson hints
Boris Johnson has hinted at allowing genetically modified food to be imported from the US after Brexit as he called ...
Hand sanitizers can’t ‘work miracles’: Purell warned by FDA to cut back on marketing claims
The makers of Purell are pruning their marketing strategy after the Food and Drug Administration slapped the company with a ...
Field trials of non-browning CRISPR-edited potatoes begin in Argentina
In a study published recently in the Frontiers in Plant Science magazine, scientists from Argentina and Sweden reported they have edited ...
Viewpoint: We need to rebrand the BRCA ‘breast cancer’ genes to help men understand their own risks
Both men and women have the same risk of developing BRCA1 and 2 gene mutations, but men are ten times less likely to get ...
Strep throat making a comeback? Bacteria developing resistance to our ‘go-to’ antibiotics
Strep is generally considered a known entity—with a known, reliable treatment. Then came two serious Strep A infections in Seattle, ...
Viewpoint: China’s coronavirus is getting all the attention, but this year’s flu season is more frightening
What we appear to be having this year is a flu-the-trickster season. And while that new coronavirus is getting a lot of attention, ...
Video: House of Lords member and science writer Matt Ridely urges UK to ‘break free’ of Europe’s restrictive CRISPR crop rules
The UK must break away from Europe's restrictive agricultural gene-editing rules, science writer Matt Ridley told the UK's House of ...
There’s a potential threat from cancer-spotting AI: overdiagnosis
These days, it might seem like algorithms are out-diagnosing doctors at every turn, identifying dangerous lesions and dodgy moles with ...
Kenya GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton approval signals end to farmers’ misery, farm group tells president
Following Kenya's recent approval of GMO insect-resistant cotton, veteran maize and cotton farmer Daniel Magondu penned this letter to the ...
Viewpoint: Chronic pain sufferers are needlessly ‘stigmatized’ and how we can change that
Millions of people who live with chronic pain experience intense stigma. I view stigma as the combination of difference plus ...
India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
How long will it take to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus?
As a newly discovered pneumonia-causing virus threatens to engulf China and spread far beyond its borders, governments and researchers are ...
