Science Controversies

Some bad ideas have originated in America. Reality television, spray-on cheese, pineapple pizza, and deep-fried Hostess Twinkies come to mind. But the ...

Ghana is now ready to introduce genetically modified .... food onto the market, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the ...

[T]hree papers [recently published] from research groups around the world detail attempts to make a new type of super-tomato: one ...

Reconsidering his previous dismissal, a federal judge has decided to advance a class action accusing Chipotle Mexican Grill of falsely ...

"We, as vice-chancellors of Swedish universities and higher education institutions, are very critical of a decision by the Court of ...

[With] gene-editing scissors, or the CRISPR-Cas method .... DNA sequences can be removed from or added to cells. The target ...

Doctors selling dubious stem cell treatments isn’t just a problem in the U.S., suggests a new study published in Regenerative Medicine. Clinics ...

Farmers and agribusinesses welcomed the agreement on a new North American trade pact, easing fears that the Trump administration’s tough ...

There are approximately 7,000 known rare diseases, however, less than 6% of these have a treatment. It is estimated that between 25–35 ...

Starting with just one office 19 months ago, [Kalypso Wellness Center] has expanded rapidly to meet surging patient demand for ...

While proposals like cognitive or moral enhancements to help create a less doomsday-prone population are quite speculative (and on occasion, ...

A citizen petition filed on September 24, 2018 by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) asked FDA to prohibit “non-GMO” food ...

We've all had nights where we struggle to fall asleep, but imagine being trapped in a cycle of insomnia that gets progressively ...

Colin Carter and Aleks Schaefer just published an interesting new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, which powerfully shows that mandatory ...

Humans have been breeding plants for millennia. Our ancestors began to domesticate plants (and animals) at least 10,000 years ago, allowing ...

When the next dead­ly pan­dem­ic flu hits, the first chal­lenge will be to de­vel­op a vac­cine. But loom­ing behind that ob­sta­cle is ...

The most authoritative science and technology think tank in the United States has filed a petition against the Non-GMO Project’s ...

Many people with diabetes prick their fingers several times a day to measure blood sugar levels and decide on the ...

There are nicotine patches to help quit smoking, and then there’s this: patches of actual skin, genetically engineered to produce ...

It’s become a heartbreakingly common sight on the internet: People using crowdfunding sites to raise money for their expensive health ...

As the 2018 [football] season gets into full swing, some college teams are keeping a new gadget on the sidelines: ...

A few years ago, I began to see children in my practice who seemingly responded to marijuana-derived extracts. And as ...

My husband and I manage a farm in Rhineland-Palatinate [in Germany] with agriculture and livestock. Agriculture thinks in generations, so we, ...

Genetic diagnosis is getting ever more sophisticated. But as doctors uncover diseases that are hereditary, who needs to know? Shaun ...

South Australia has announced an independent review into the state's moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops. Economist and agriculture policy ...

A new study suggests that its results could lead to a simple test for some children with autism, but statisticians ...

[On September 14th] the I published an article regarding the future of gene editing following a letter from 30 leading scientists to ...