Science Controversies
Academics Review: Organic food industry engaged in ‘multi-decade public disinformation campaign’
Consumers have spent years paying over the odds for organic foods based on the erroneous belief - promulgated by stakeholders ...
Guidelines needed for safe GM crop field trials in Indian
Agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan has stressed the need for revising the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill, which will lapse along with ...
Anti-GMO activists hijacked Indian farmer suicides story for their own agenda
Of the many horror stories we hear about GMOs, few are as heart-rending as the one about how nearly 300,000 ...
Greenpeace denies stealing GM seeds from Chinese university experimental fields
Greenpeace on Monday rebuffed accusations of attempted theft from Huazhong Agricultural University's Hainan research base after three members were stopped ...
Oregon farmers divide over growing GM crops
Sams Valley farmer Bruce Schulz stands in a field that has genetically modified alfalfa on one side and conventional alfalfa ...
Physician sees disorder for decade before genotyping can confirm genetic link
It was more than ten years ago that Dr. Tally Lerman-Sagie first saw babies with PCCA, a genetic disorder that ...
Treatment impacts of new cloning milestone
DNA extracted from the skin of a 35 and 75 year-old male has been injected into four denucleated human eggs ...
Lifestyle affects personal microbiome
Trillions of microbes live in and on our body. We don’t yet fully understand how these microbial ecosystems develop or ...
New technique speeds up gene expression analysis from hours to minutes
With gene expression analysis growing in importance for both basic researchers and medical practitioners, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and ...
Genes play roll in pain tolerance differences between patients
Researchers may have identified key genes linked to why some people have a higher tolerance for pain than others, according ...
GLP Infographic: How crops are modified–Are GMOs more dangerous?
A new GLP infographic reviews the four main ways in which crops have been genetically modified by humans: traditional breeding, ...
Marker-assisted plant breeding: agricultural genetics without GMOs
Marker-assisted selection is a fancy way of saying plant breeders are using genetics to "preview" their crops and streamline the ...
‘Organic mommy mafia’ pushes foods based on misleading claims of health and nutrition
“Am I going to be an outcast?” A friend, who recently moved to an upscale neighborhood in Madison, Wis., called ...
Shortages may trigger food wars by 2050
Within a few more decades, dire food shortages may lead to global-scale conflict, warned a top plant scientist in the ...
Connecticut’s GM seed opposition is assault on science
To create high-paying jobs in Connecticut, economic development professionals often remind us that the future belongs to places that value ...
Organic’s rejection of GM foods is unfortunate ‘green’ food fad
Organic agriculture is a mainstay of the modern environmental movement. Proponents say organic food is better for the environment because ...
Celebrity chef champions sustainable seafood, includes farmed salmon on menu
Celebrity chef Rick Moonen was a champion of sustainable seafood long before it was the cool thing to do. When ...
Hawaii papaya growers proud of GM Hawaiian papayas
In this era where shippers and processors are taking extra steps to ensure consumers know their products are free of ...
Vermont’s GMO labeling bill reminiscent of overturned rBST labeling law
Vermont is again poised to be the one who steps out on labeling requirements. In 1995 it mandated the labeling ...
Africa lagging behind in GE crops acquisition
African economies are still lagging behind in acquisition of agricultural biotechnology and particularly genetically engineered crops. A report by International ...
Anti-GMO activists target Hawaii’s critical role in seed research and development
Most of us associate seeds and commodity crops with the Midwest, but Hawaii is crucial to cutting edge research in ...
Google’s biotech company Calico poaches prominent SF geneticist
Google's mysterious health venture dedicated to extending human life has quietly lured a prominent scientist away from UCSF, The Chronicle ...
Mummy geneticist’s memoir
In the summer of 1981, a Swedish graduate student named Svante Paabo filled a laboratory at the University of Uppsala ...
Down syndrome and leukemia risk explained by genes
In science, technological advances often serve to deepen medical mysteries, as researchers peel away the next layer of the onion ...
Parkinson’s may be caused by autoimmune gene expression
The cause of neuronal death in Parkinson’s disease is still unknown, but a new study proposes that neurons may be ...
Staph may have acquired resistance genes for common antimicbrobial hand sanitizers
Sneezing out antimicrobial snot may sound like a superpower, but it actually could be a handicap. Triclosan, an omnipresent antimicrobial ...
Replacement arteries working in human patients
Even in the 1990s, the procedure seemed primitive. Laura Niklason watched it repeatedly as a medical resident at Boston’s Massachusetts ...
