Science Controversies
France: Court overturns ban on Monsanto GE maize
France's highest administrative court rejected on Thursday a government ban on growing Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize (corn). In its ...
Cloud-based genomics: Will the Internet create GM super-oranges?
Farmers are hacking their operations with robots, sensors, drones, and good-old circuit boards, but that’s merely a first step. Thanks ...
French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”
French anti-biotech activists are now destroying "hidden GMOs" -- that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding ...
UK: Survey finds GM gaining favor
More people support rather than oppose the growing of genetically modified crops and more of them are prepared to buy ...
Is there something missing from the New York Times story on GE oranges?
Here's what I like about Amy Harmon's New York Times story: It's very nicely written, nicely organized, and it spins ...
Hawaii science ‘Swat Team’ part 2: Hawaii must resist anti-GMO scare, defend maize nurseries
Hawaii is an important player in global agriculture, and important nursery for the development of maize and other crops due ...
Next-generation sequencing, with love
Last week, researchers at the University of Oxford announced that the first baby had been born after undergoing a technique which can ...
Single genetic glitch may explain most allergies and asthma
Researchers think there may be a common genetic driver behind almost all allergic diseases ...
Can crop biotech save the cassava?
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) are currently two major viral diseases that severely reduce cassava ...
Genetic exceptionalism and privacy
Despite privacy fears, genetic information may be less damaging than other forms of personal medical data ...
Would Rosalind Franklin have won a Nobel for her work on viruses?
Best known for her part in discovering the structure of DNA, Franklin also discovered the structure of viruses ...
Russia to increase production of GE despite scientific uncertainty
The Government of the Russian Federation approved a "roadmap" to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done ...
DNA superstorage: Apocalypse-proofing the world’s data
In terms of information density, DNA outclasses anything we’ve been able to invent. Two scientists think all the world's information ...
Ghana approves first GE crops for trials
Ghana's Biosafety Bill was given Presidential assent to become law, after it has been in Parliament for four years. The ...
A lesson in ethics from the synbio DIYers
DIYBio is a global collective of ordinary people who like experimenting in their spare time with chemicals they’ve ordered over ...
Crops that can genetically modify their pests
Imagine a future in which genetically engineered plants are able to genetically engineer -- and thereby defeat -- their own ...
References: The Sudan connection: Are Ethiopian Jews descendants of the ancient Israelites?
The following is a complete list of references for "The Sudan connection: Are Ethiopian Jews descendants of the ancient Israelites," by Ibrahim Omer ...
European scientists warn of dangers of “Precautionary Science”
Eighteen scientists recently weighed in on the unscientific and dangerous nature of the so-called "precautionary principle" in the July issue ...
UK: Ordinary laboratory animals are outnumbered by GM counterparts for first time
The following is an edited excerpt. The number of genetically modified (GM) animals used in scientific research in Britain has ...
Curing the disease known as aging
Is aging a process that we simply have to accept as a fact of life or is it something we ...
European bee policy criticized by industry
The new Guidance Document on Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products on Bees sets unrealistic expectations and enforces measures that ...
Oregon: Groups battle GM crops using tactics from the fracking fight
Groups across Oregon are working to ban genetically modified crops at the county level through initiative petitions. Many of these ...
How weeds evolve
Depending on your point of view, barnyardgrass is a nightmare or a marvel. That’s because it’s a supremely triumphant weed ...
Gene therapy for baby born without immune system
Doctors re-engineered a girl's DNA using a ‘reprogrammed virus’ to splice in the vital gene she is missing into her ...
Roseanne’s nuts about GMOs
Lately, a lot has been going on in the crop biotechnology arena in Hawai’i. There’s Hawai’i Bill 79, and Kaua’i ...
Is gene therapy coming of age?
Researchers are promising results from gene therapy trials for the treatment of two different rare diseases ...
Myriad Genetics sues competitors for patent infringement
Myriad genetics is suing two competitors for infringing on patents not covered by the Supreme Court's ruling on human gene ...
