Science Controversies
Another Hawaii papaya farmer sues to block anti-GMO restrictions
Big Island Farmer Delan "Rusty" Perry says he resisted planting genetically modified plants at first, but after the Ring Spot ...
In conflict with GMO farmers, do organic farmers seek special treatment
March 3, 2014 story from Reuters by Carey Gillam presents claims by organic farmers that the federal government needs to step in to ...
Korean scientist’s new project: rebuild after cloning disgrace
No one galvanized South Korea’s national pride as he did, and no scandal in recent years unsettled the country as ...
Agricultural economist challenges Iowa farmer’s claim that GMO corn disliked by cows, causes animal health problems
The Huffington post recently ran a story about Howard Vlieger, one Iowa farmer who became skeptical of effects of GMOs on his animal ...
Anti-GMO activists have the ‘right to be manipulated’
The list of supermarkets, companies and restaurants hopping aboard the anti-GMO train keeps growing. Last year Whole Foods and Chipotle ...
Hawaii County GM papaya grower challenges GMO/pesticide restriction ban
An unnamed farmer filed a lawsuit seeking relief from requirements of Hawaii County’s recently enacted ban on genetically modified crops ...
Latest twists in the Seralini saga
Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini, whose controversial research reporting genetically modified corn causes cancer in mammalian species (published in Food and Chemical Toxicology and ...
Podcast: GLP’s Jon Entine interviewed on Vancouver’s CKNW
A new poll shows that the majority of British Columbians aren't too keen on genetically modified foods. Many of them ...
EU countries moving to compromise that could open door to more GM crops
A majority of EU member countries backed a compromise agreement on GMO authorization which maintains an EU-wide approval scheme but ...
Will pests develop resistance to GMO Bt crops? Not anytime soon, says Cornell study
GM crops modified with the bacterium Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) produce natural proteins that kill pest insects, dramatically reducing the need ...
Australian GMO “contamination” case in final stages
The National Association for Sustainable Agriculture Australia's (NASAA) organic standards were scrutinized in the final days of the Australian court ...
Controversial Iowa farmer Howard Vlieger makes case against GMOs
Howard Vlieger's first direct experience with GMOs came in 1997 when he planted a test plot comparing BT (GMO) corn to ...
Ecologist challenges claims that GMOs and conventional foods are ‘substantially equivalent’
Several new studies carried out by scientists independent of the biotech industry are showing up glaring differences between GMOs and ...
Genetics, digital revolution driving pharmaceutical renaissance
Modern molecular biology and genomics were supposed to lead to a targeted approach to drug development, but in fact our ...
Push to predict how next year’s flu will evolve
Influenza viruses evolve rapidly, making it hard to develop protective vaccines against them. Despite a great deal of effort, scientists ...
Genetic entrepreneur J. Craig Venter to tackle the problem of human aging
Craig Venter sequenced the first human genome. He made the first synthetic cell. And now, for his next trick, he's ...
Can Amanda Knox’s appeal overturn ‘guilty’ verdict based on contaminated DNA evidence?
The Knox defense team asked for an independent analysis of all of the forensic data, but the judge denied the ...
How did Monsanto become the ‘evil face’ of GMOs?
Over the past decade, Monsanto has become a pop cultural bogeyman, the face of corporate evil. The company and its ...
Even if the FDA approves GMO salmon Kroger and Safeway won’t sell it
Kroger and Safeway, the largest retail grocery companies in the U.S., have reportedly agreed not to sell genetically modified salmon ...
Bio industry claim: Unnecessary delays in GMO reviews cost EU economy €9.6 billion
EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, which includes companies from research and development, testing, manufacturing and distribution of biotechnology products ...
Powerful new DNA-editing method
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they ...
Mature cells are flexible, able to change type
In 1998, University of Bath biologist David Tosh had a eureka moment. He noticed that some of the rat pancreatic ...
De-Extinction: If we’re being honest, it is a bit like Jurassic Park
Dinosaurs are not on the de-extinction agenda, but that doesn't mean that the philosophical questions raised by Jurassic Park are ...
Religious shareholder activist group backs labeling GMOs citing potential “harmful side effects”
Fear of the unknown hazards of technology has been the inspiration for science fiction cautionary tales from Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein to Japanese ...
Behind India’s decision to authorize GMO field trials
India's Environment Minister Veerappa Moily has done the right thing by allowing field trials of genetically modified (GM) cotton, maize, ...
Biotech innovation in Egypt
In a symposium featuring the ISAAA Brief 46: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops 2013 in Egypt, Prof. Raamzy Stino, ...
GMO cereals have less vitamins, but maybe that’s not a bad thing
t is a fact that the new formulations do have fewer vitamins than those containing GMO ingredients. Industry site BakeryandSnacks.com ...
