Science Controversies
Organic farmer speaks out for GMO co-existence: Labeling might break impasse for the reasonable
A new "GLP Voice" from our growing stable of guest contributors: Quebec organic farmer Rob Wallbridge says organics and GMOs ...
Phylogenetic forensics advances but doesn’t give courts a smoking gun
Juries might soon be hearing about the genetic path of infections and diseases as evidence in court cases. The process ...
Artisanal salami…made with the meat of cloned celebrities?
"BiteLabs grows meat from celebrity tissue samples and uses it to make artisanal salami." So proclaims the copy on BiteLabs.org, ...
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 ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Horshoe crabs bleed for biomedicine
The bright blue blood of horseshoe crabs is a biomedical treasure, but harvesting the blood of these unique creatures seems ...
Greenpeace slams India’s decision clearing GMO field trials
Environmental watchdog Greenpeace slammed Indian's environment minister Veerappa Moily's decision to allow field trials of certain genetically modified (GM) food crops ...
Is Round-up in the air a health danger? (Answer: No)
Last week the anti-biotech websites exploded with the news: “Roundup Weedkiller Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples, Gov ...
Celebrity “meat” launches bioethics discussion
Bite Labs wants to grow meats from celebrity tissue to make into artisanal salami. The company wants to "prompt widespread ...
British Columbia is hotbed of anti-GMO sentiment
Studies suggesting health effects from eating food derived from GE crops remain highly controversial. The Canadian government evaluates novel foods ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Without accurate genome sequencing, personalized medicine is a goner
It's hard to correctly read every one of the six-billion base pairs in a human genome. But without precision sequencing, ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Confused about GMOs? Blame it on your poor math education
A person's math skills may impact how well they understand messages and information about scientific health, such as information regarding ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
British ‘3-parent’ IVF babies could come as early as 2015
While the U.S. FDA takes on the process of 3-parent IVF, Britain could be seeing their first 3-parent babies as ...
Can a genetic model predict next year’s flu strain?
The seasonal flu has met its enemy, and it’s calculus. A theoretical physicist and computational biologist analyzed the genetic code ...
Are GMO crops sustainable? Bullets fly over environmentalist Jon Foley’s controversial essay
“Against my better judgment, I’m dipping my toe into the genetically modified organism debate," wrote University of Minnesota environmentalist Jon ...
Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields 4 times normal litigation (LOL)
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto unveiled its latest strain of genetically modified corn Wednesday, claiming that the new, hardier seed yields ...
Biology Fortified profile: Do GMOs and sustainability go together?
Started on Halloween of 2008, Biofortified.org pooled together the work of various scientists who were frustrated by the environmental movement’s entire approach ...
Finanacial and legal woes for GMOs
I noted how an Australian farmer was suing a neighboring farmer for contaminating his organic fields with Monsanto's GM seed, ...
India approves GMO trials for broader array of crops
India's environment minister, M. Veerappa Moily, on Thursday said that the ministry has approved confined field trials of genetically modified ...
GMOs need to focus on the consumer not the producer
British consumers will only embrace genetically modified foods when traits are developed which provide them with significant benefits, Justin King, ...
Slate slashes New York Times and Center for Genetics and Society for faux ‘designer baby’ scare tactics
The Center for Genetics and Society created a splash in the NYT this week with its all-too-familiar attack on mitochondrial ...
