Science Controversies
Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice is a win for nutrition and health
Greenpeace’s stand on golden rice is rather cynical and their article in support of their position offers bad science. It ...
Promise of “easy” stem cells comes under investigation
Two breakthrough papers in Nature highlight a remarkable new technique for creating totipotent stem cells via a simple acid bath ...
Is it wrong to try to breed out breast cancer?
Breast cancer is the latest disease being bred out of families through preimplantation genetic diagnosis – an embryo screening test ...
$1,000 genome Is here
Today, because examining the whole genome has been so costly, most clinical and research labs look only at the exome, ...
Dr. Oz again takes on the GMO controversy again—Science or myth?
Celebrity talk show host Dr. Oz has a complicated and controversial relationship with GMOs—demonstrated again with his latest foray into ...
EU rules that honey containing GM pollen will not require a label
The European Parliament has ruled that pollen is a natural constituent of honey and not an ingredient, as anti-GMO forces ...
GMOs are a lot more boring than the scare debate about them suggests
GMOs constrict a debate that really ought to be much broader. Take drought resistance. An almighty rumble has been brewing ...
Australia must commit to develop genetically engineered livestock to meet global demand
Genetically engineered livestock will be critical to feeding the world's projected population of 9 billion people by 2050, according to ...
Anti-GMO farmer debates Monsanto spokesperson
To many foes of GMOs, most definitely including a good number of small farmers, the multinational Monsanto Company, headquartered in ...
Biofortified analysis: Do GMOs offer nutritional advantages?
As part of Biology Fortified's serious The Promise of GMO's, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs ...
Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
American Soybean Association joins call for federal GMO labeling solution
The American Soybean Association is urging Congress to seek a federal solution to GMO labeling. Earlier this month, the ASA ...
China insider: Will fear campaigns stop the world’s largest spender on GMO research from utilizing the technology?
China has led the world in government research in developing GM crops, spending billions of dollars in R&D. However, an ...
Want your own Frank N. Foode? Kickstarter campaign brings GMO mascot to the masses
Now you can have your own Frank N. Foode--the mascot of the sound science GMO movement--with Biology Fortified's Kickstarter campaign ...
Ancient genetics may lead to future treatment for gout
We're susceptible to gout because of a mutated gene in humans and other primates that prevents us from producing uricase, ...
Interactive graphic: Using agricultural technologies for sustainable food security
The International Food Policy Research has developed the Agritech Toolbox, an interactive online tool that demonstrates “how alternative agricultural practices ...
Do GMOs have to end world hunger in order to be desirable crops?
GMOs should not be held to impossible standards or justified with lofty world-saving promises—their proven, real-world value is enough to ...
GMO ban law up for vote in country of Georgia
Living genetically modified organisms will not be freely imported to Georgia and will only be permitted entry if planted in ...
Bad things can happen when food companies listen to anti-GMO activists instead of consumers
In removing genetically modified ingredients from Cheerios, General Mills joins the growing number of companies that are bending, not to ...
Princeton bioethicist/activist Peter Singer makes case to soften opposition to GMOs, Golden Rice
When genetically modified crops were first developed in the 1980’s, there were grounds for caution. Would these crops be safe ...
France passes decree banning planting of GM maize
France has published a decree to prevent the planting of modified maize as a stop-gap measure, while the government works ...
You say potato, I say GMO: Are spuds the next battleground in the GMO debate?
A battle is being waged over a healthier, genetically modified potato that McDonald’s is reportedly exploring. And now, yet another ...
Families hope anti-genetic engineering groups don’t stop gene cure for mitochondria disease
Hopes of tackling mitochondrial disease will be raised in a few weeks when the government announces regulations that will permit ...
New twist on the China-Viptera GMO corn controversy: Customers are talking—is Syngenta listening?
While China--instigator of a trade war with the US--continues to reject GMO corn exports that contain the Viptera trait, American ...
Three parent baby debate: FDA ponders mitochondrial manipulation and, perhaps, germline modification too
Next week, the Food and Drug Administration is meeting to consider how a very controversial new form of assisted reproduction ...
Will New York have a GMO labeling bill fight?
Labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients might be a federal issue at some point, but the states are not done ...
France, Germany want right to buck European law, ban GM corn
France and Germany are to propose a new European law to allow member states to ban Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) ...
