Science Controversies
In a global first, injection-free DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine approved — and more in the works
India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the ...
Moderna vaccine appears to be significantly superior to Pfizer’s in preventing COVID hospitalizations
Amid persistent concerns that the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines may be waning, a report released [September 17] by the ...
Japan poised to approve CRISPR gene edited sea bream fish that has 50% more muscle mass — and requires no extra food
Japan is genetically modifying sea bream fish to have 50 percent more muscle and, according to Japan News/Yomiuri Shinbun, government ...
Viewpoint: Freedom not force? One physician’s strategy to engage the COVID vaccine reluctant
The anger I feel toward vaccine-hesitant people becomes a more complicated emotion when I witness them reckoning with their choices ...
Stop hair greying with a pill? Repigmentation is not about to happen with this overhyped supplement
Why put up with grey hair when we could pop a new pill to “replenish [our] body with the vitamins, ...
Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations
The UK is gearing up to diverge from the EU and make it easier to research and commercially cultivate genetically ...
Opioid vaccine that limits relapses during detox treatment is on the horizon
Inoculations are commonly used to prevent infectious diseases like COVID-19, but they also may have the potential to treat substance ...
How Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to ‘get America vaccinated’ were undermined by… Facebook
In mid-March, Mark Zuckerberg used his Facebook page to announce a goal that was both ambitious and personal. He wanted ...
One strategy that appears to sway vaccine reluctants: Appeals to faith
Our recent PRRI/IFYC Religion and the Vaccine Survey found clear progress in vaccine uptake, even among many hesitant groups, between ...
Think of vaccines more like flame retardants than impenetrable walls. Some people will inevitably get sick
The first thing to know about the COVID-19 vaccines is that they’re doing exactly what they were designed and authorized ...
There are still no approved and effective therapies for thousands of ‘long haul’ COVID patients
[A] study, published in February in the journal JAMA Network Open by researchers at the University of Washington, suggests that around ...
COVID vaccine confusion: Why is there so much conflicting advice about if and when to get a booster shot?
On boosters, Americans have heard conflicting messages from various parts of the U.S. government. Yet, [Anthony] Fauci said, “there is ...
‘Politics of natural immunity vs vaccines’: British Medical Journal reports US stands alone in ‘not counting’ immunity impact of people who have had COVID in recommendations
When the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans—91 million—had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according ...
Musician Nicki Minaj hesitates to get a COVID vaccine because it ‘caused a friend of a friend to become impotent’. Let’s review the evidence
Nicki Minaj turned a lot of heads [September 13] when she told her 22 million followers on Twitter that she ...
Viewpoint: ‘Mammoth debacle’ — The not-so-encouraging backstory to George Church’s $15 million start-up hoping to resurrect the extinct wooly mammoth
[A] team of scientists and entrepreneurs has formed a company called Colossal that aims to “bring back the woolly mammoth.” ...
Global travel with Delta spreading? Here how experts recommend staying safe
Although vaccinated individuals can catch and spread the delta variant, the vaccine is extremely effective (around 95%, according to Dr ...
Viewpoint: ‘Digital version of snake-oil salesmen’ — Vaccine hesitant ‘Frontline Doctors’ group charging up to $700 for inexpensive ivermectin treatments
Over the past three months, a TIME investigation found, hundreds of AFLD [America’s Frontline Doctors] customers and donors have accused ...
COVID-fighting pills edge closer to proof-of-efficacy
Osaka-based Shionogi, which helped develop the blockbuster cholesterol drug Crestor, said it designed its pill to attack the Covid-19 virus ...
Is Delta rendering the COVID vaccine useless, as some people claim? Shot found to reduce breakthrough infections to 1 in 13,000
With tens of millions of Americans now vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of August, so-called "breakthrough" cases are bound ...
Some fully-vaccinated people are seeking out booster shots — and the CDC is exploring potential side effects
People seeking a COVID-19 booster vaccine dose in hopes of greater protection are doing so as the evidence relating to ...
Facebook allowed COVID conspiracies to circulate unchecked, more evidence shows
Facebook earlier this year faced a torrent of criticism from President Biden and others who have alleged that the company ...
While Africa seeks to harmonize crop biotechnology regulations, activists ‘corporate infiltration’ narrative
The African Union is developing guidelines for the use of genetically modified (GM) crops across the continent, officials said, amid ...
Just one gene could restore the American chestnut — a tree that reckless humans once all but destroyed
An American nurseryman introduced the Japanese chestnut tree to the eastern U.S., accidentally introducing a blight fungus along with it ...
‘Vaccine refusal has always been a place where left meets right’: Deconstructing the politics of the pandemic vaccine response
The modern anti-vaccination movement in America has often been associated with a stereotype of left-wing, coastal, white, wealthy moms — ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots
Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
How can we encourage people to wear masks?
Researchers from Stanford, Yale, the Bangladeshi nonprofit GreenVoice and the research group Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, are conducting ...
Growing food security challenges in Africa opening regulatory doors, softening opposition to game-changing CRISPR crop editing
Experts from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are now keen to extinguish a lingering assumption that genetic modification, ...
