Science Controversies
Infographic: Debating the ethics of ‘Golden Rice’
Professor Krishna Mallick of Salem State University debates the ethics of Golden Rice in an infographic. The infographic was prepared ...
Cornell researcher confirms Bangladesh Bt eggplant farms free of pest damage
While visiting Bangladesh to conduct environmental safety assessments for Bt brinjal and help farmers develop resistant management programs to ensure ...
GMOs woven into the fabric of everyday life
Let’s face it that the GMO war in Hawaii is still raging on with Maui on the hit list right ...
Africa needs farming technologies to jumpstart Green Revolution
African governments need to invest in agricultural infrastructure and technology, and create a new Green Revolution for Africa ...
Dentist wants to clone John Lennon from tooth
A dentist who owns one of John Lennon's teeth is looking forward to the day when human cloning becomes sufficiently ...
Pick the baby, then the mate?
A new computer technology allows potential parents to genetically screen sperm and egg donors for more than 600 conditions and ...
US-EU divide over GMO regulations worth fixing
Last week, I found myself sitting in an auditorium in Brussels—and listening to Europeans applaud genetically modified crops. Yet it ...
India’s rice industry says GMO rice trials would damage export prospects
India's rice exporters have expressed concern over allowing large-scale field trials of the crop's genetically modified (GM) version, saying it ...
Sterilized GM mosquitoes released in largest field test to combat dengue in Brazil
In Jacobina, a Brazilian farm town where legions of people have suffered from dengue fever, a campaign is fighting back, ...
Federal GMO label: Conspiracy for activists, science-based for industry
Industry groups described Rep. Mike Pompeo's Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014 as "science-based" while anti-GMO activists play ...
Claim that most countries other than US ban GMOs myth debunked
Have you heard the line about GMOs being banned in all other countries? It's the old argument that if every ...
10 realizations to change thinking about GMOs
When I first started learning about GMOs, my model was trans fats and vitamin supplements. We thought that we could ...
GM grass ban rejected in Connecticut after House and Senate split
On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the Senate approved a bill banning genetically modified grass seed, the House found bipartisan agreement ...
Increasing gene transcription factor causes organ to repair itself
Regenerative medicine—the idea that it is possible to revitalise old, dilapidated tissue and keep a body going when its organs ...
Food industry claim New York’s GMO labeling bill would cost consumers
Legislation is pending before the state Legislature to require GMO labeling on all food products. Sound reasonable? Maybe, but not ...
Maui anti-GMO campaigners petition with 9,500 signatures, pro-GMO groups hold their ground
A total of 9,500 signatures were submitted to the county on Monday as part of a petition calling for the ...
MRSA’s genetics affect how toxic it will be
The spread of the antibiotic-resistant pathogen MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) remains a concerning public health problem, especially among doctors trying ...
Embattled STAP stem cell researcher: I’m not guilty of miscounduct, technique works
Stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata -- recently accused by her employer, Japan's prestigious RIKEN institute, of research misconduct -- has ...
Confronting fear of genetic modification, a life-saving technology
GMO Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We’re going to be featuring some of them on the ...
Bill introduced in US Congress that would block mandatory GMO food labeling by states
State efforts to label genetically-modified food would be outlawed under a bill unveiled by a Kansas congressman Wednesday – a ...
Vitamin A-deficient children need Golden Rice now, everything else is noise
There is a need for what Golden Rice can deliver: vitamin A. According to the World Health Organization an estimated ...
No logic in giving up GMO food production for organic
So what is “organic,” really? To look at this question, it can be easier to start with what is not ...
Newborn genome sequencing: Would every newborn be a patient?
With cost and access decreasing, sequencing the genome of every child at birth could become part of standard newborn screenings ...
Stine Seed flies under media radar but is patent backbone of biotech industry
Few outside of the biotech industry know Stine Seed Farm, a plant breeding and biotechnology group that develops germplasm for ...
GM mosquitoes can control mosquito menace, if politics doesn’t block development
Mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people annually, and cause suffering for many more. It takes only one bite from a disease-carrying ...
Simplot discusses GE potato that doesn’t brown or produce cancer-causing acrylamide
Biology Fortified sent Simplot some questions about their GE Simplot potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried, nor does ...
‘Green gene’ movement can blend genetic engineering and organic practices
While most people treat genetic engineering and organic agriculture as worlds apart, the green gene movement is trying to think ...
