Science Controversies
Anti-GMO groups in the Philippines launch campaign challenging Golden Rice approval
The Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) condemned [Dec. 19] the approval of the genetically-modified crop [Golden ...
Kenya green lights GMO Bt cotton after successful 5-year field trial
The Kenyan Cabinet, chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta, has approved the commercial planting of Bt cotton after the 5-year field ...
Lawyer in glyphosate-cancer suit arrested for alleged $200 million extortion plot against unnamed chemical company
Law enforcement officials have arrested a Virginia lawyer involved in litigation over the health risks of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer ...
Non-addictive version of ecstasy ‘party drug’ emerges as potential treatment for PTSD, anxiety
MDMA, or ecstasy, once had the reputation of exclusively being an illicit party drug popular at raves and dance clubs ...
Are you at greater risk for macular degeneration if you eat a lot of fried foods and processed meat?
Participants who ate a diet high in red and processed meat, fried food, refined grains, and high-fat dairy were three ...
FDA rejects Center for Food Safety objections to key ingredient in GMO Impossible Burger
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is responding to objections that it received from the Center for Food ...
South Australia lifts GMO crop moratorium, but Green Party vows to reinstate ban in 2020
The state government announced [Dec. 19] it would publish regulations in the last Government Gazette of the year, lifting the ...
Podcast: How precision, customized medicine is reshaping health care
For all the life-saving pharmaceuticals, surgeries and devices it provides, modern medicine is still rather imprecise. Chemotherapy drugs, for instance, ...
Philippines approves nutritionally-enhanced GMO Golden Rice for human consumption
After rigorous biosafety assessment, Golden Rice “has been found to be as safe as conventional rice" by the Philippine Department ...
GMO salmon labeling rule that producer says ‘targets’ its product added by Sen. Murkowski to 2020 spending bill
Genetically modified salmon supplier AquaBounty is criticizing “vague” new requirements for GM-salmon labeling that were included in the Fiscal Year ...
Modern love or eugenics? Genetics pioneer George Church’s dating app matches DNA to ‘wipe out’ inherited disease
George Church made a passing comment about a genetic dating app his lab was developing that he said could wipe ...
New technique may yield gene-edited plants in a few weeks, instead of 9 months
A University of Minnesota research team recently developed new methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants ...
Lab-grown burgers? Cell-based steaks? Alternative meat industry scrambles to find consumer-friendly product names
The debate over what to call cell-cultured meat remains unresolved—and it could soon develop into a headache for the global ...
US revising GMO, gene editing rules to ensure health and environmental safety, protect innovation
.... More than 30 years have passed since the three federal agencies that deal with agricultural products of biotechnology — ...
China may balk at announced purchase of $50 billion in US crops
China ramping up agricultural purchases to the level that the U.S. is demanding would be a problem and Beijing would ...
Would price controls hamper research on gene therapy and other innovative treatments?
Over the next decade, it is a near certainty that we will have gene-therapy cures for deadly inherited disorders such ...
CRISPR-edited crops could go on sale in Japan before end of 2019
Food products produced using genome editing technology could go on sale in Japan by the end of the year despite ...
‘Mini-trade deal’ between US, China expected to ease Chinese restrictions on GMO crops
President Donald Trump has signed off on a mini-trade deal with China, four people familiar with the negotiations said on ...
Genetics pioneer George Church on support for human gene editing: As long as it’s open to everyone—rich or poor
Is it ethical to genetically engineer people? Leading geneticist George Church spends a lot of time thinking about the answer ...
Bacterial DNA found in gene-edited dairy cow could slow development of more CRISPR animals
Many scientists and animal breeders are keenly interested in directly altering a portion of an organism’s genome to incorporate specific ...
European ‘Green Deal’ stripped of proposal to develop ‘innovative strategies,’ including gene editing
The Green Deal submitted [Dec. 11] left out two controversial passages to agriculture. The debate on genetic engineering and pesticide ...
Viewpoint: Regulatory hurdles keep life-saving, plant-made vaccines off the market
Plant-made vaccines have been in the pipeline for nearly thirty years. Generated stably in transgenic plants or transiently using virus ...
Chronic pain relief: Why Gabapentin may not be a ‘safe’ alternative to opioids
Gabapentin was supposed to be the answer. Chronic pain afflicts about a fifth of American adults, and for years, doctors thought it ...
Judge blocks Arkansas law outlawing use of ‘meat’ to market plant-based burgers
Veggie burgers are safe for now after a federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas legislation banning the use of meat-related terminology ...
Farm to Fork strategy: New EU Agriculture Commissioner wants to boost organic farming
The EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, highlighted the promotion of organic farming as a key aim for the new ...
US GMO, CRISPR crop regulations could face major ‘overhaul’ in 2020
USDA officials are confident that a finalized proposal to overhaul the country’s regulatory framework for biotech crops can be achieved ...
USMCA trade deal boosts American agriculture, supports gene-editing technology, USDA says
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Speaker of ...
