Science Controversies
Filipino farmers embrace GM eggplant when informed
A study contends that 96 percent of Filipino farmers are willing to shift to a genetically modified (GM) eggplant and ...
Broadening coalition supports federal pre-emption of piecemeal state GMO labeling laws
A broadening coalition of 29 U.S. organizations is urging Congress to develop federal standards to guide the labeling of food ...
Gene identified that may make it easier to engineer plants
A recent discovery could lead to easier genetic modification of plant varieties considered recalcitrant to standard methods, including varieties of ...
Judge rules Myriad can’t block other companies’ gene tests
Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN:US), the biggest maker of tests for hereditary risks of breast and ovarian cancer, fell the most ...
Teen identifies rare mutation in her own cancer, champions new age of open-access genetics
Elana Simon, an 18-year-old high school student, has published a "groundbreaking" genetic study of her own rare cancer in Science ...
GM salmon: Will supermarket wariness sabotage rollout of first genetically engineered animal?
With the FDA close to approving the AquAdvantage GM salmon, wariness by supermarkets and aggressive opposition from anti-GMO NGOs raises ...
Syngenta halts sales of new GMO corn seed in Canada
Syngenta AG said on Monday it had halted commercial sales in Canada of corn seed containing a new and controversial genetically ...
China wants to develop its own GMOs
China has long faced unfavorable food math: It feeds a fifth of the world’s population on a seventh of its ...
GMOs “no longer a Pandora’s box”–Key tool to meet soaring food needs
The NGO Biosciences for Farming in Africa has produced a collection of essays focused on "how will we be able ...
Gene therapy for HIV infection?
HIV has proven to be a frustrating challenge to scientists looking for a magic-bullet cure. Researchers are now evaluating an ...
Three-person IVF has nothing to do with eugenics, but let’s talk about it anyhow
Parents in the UK look set to become the first in the world to use a radical IVF technique that ...
Monsarno (aka Monsanto) makes an appearance on the ‘Simpsons’
On Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons," Monsanto — in a plot line surely not endorsed by the company — is the ...
Triple-threat GM rice protects against drought, salty soils and lack of fertilizer
For the first time, a single strain of genetically modified rice has been developed to handle drought, salty soils and ...
Another farmer’s response to Chipotle’s agriculture take down
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it “values branding”: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to ...
Can a GMO and non-GMO coexistence policy work in the US?
They don’t get along like peas in a pod, but farmers who plant genetically modified crops need to coexist with ...
With risks and rewards, GMOs are here to stay
I recently learned my kids’ favorite cereal, Cheerios, is full of GMO ingredients. Learning this made me wonder how common ...
Pesticides in paradise?
Many Kauai locals have been outraged to discover that their island paradise is also home to a proliferating genetically engineered ...
In Hawaii, Big Island judge issues restraining order blocking new GMO law
The battle over so-called GMOs took another turn in a Hilo courtroom last Friday. At issue is a law that requires ...
Litany of unknowns surface at FDA germline modification meeting
An FDA committee held a historic public meeting last week to discuss the scientific, technologic, and clinical issues related to ...
Scientists create genetically modified cells that fight HIV
The treatment is considered radical, and the results were drawn from a small scale human trial, but for the first ...
Multiplex babies? New wrinkle on ‘new eugenics’ and the debate over 3-parent IVF babies
While the debate rages on about 3-parents IVF, there is already talk about an even more radical procedure: babies made ...
A tall non-GMO latte? Not at Starbucks
The anti-biotech group GMO Inside called on Starbucks to serve only organic milk, thereby eliminating GMOs, from its stores in ...
The people behind GMO papayas
Last August, I was invited to speak about genetically engineered crops at a GMO Summit organized by the Hawai’i Crop ...
Julie Borlaug, daughter of ‘Green Revolution’ founder, says biotech necessary to fight hunger
In her address at the 9th annual Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio, Julie Borlaug, granddaughter of Nobel Peace prize laureate ...
Push to label GMOs in Florida
In Florida there's a renewed push to label our food that contains genetically modified organisms or GMO's. Some say consumers ...
Greater variety of pre-natal screenings now offered
The list of available pre-natal genetic screening tests is growing. The tests are non-invasive and generally have a low false-positive ...
‘Designer babies’: Mitochondrial misinterpretation by the media
As the FDA took on the charge of debating the science behind three-parent IVF and mitochondrial manipulation last week, the ...
