Science Controversies
What do infectious disease experts say about the Wuhan lab leak COVID origins hypothesis?
So what do infectious disease researchers and evolutionary biologists say about [arguments for the Wuhan lab leak COVID hypothesis?] Is ...
‘Not designer babies’: IVF-based mitochondrial replacement therapy on cusp of Australia legalization despite Catholic opposition
In Australia, about one child a week is born with a severe form of mitochondrial disease. Most young children diagnosed ...
Pfizer and Moderna vaccine recipients may not need booster shots for years — if COVID variants don’t evolve too much beyond the virus’ original form
[A recent] study bolsters growing evidence that most people immunized with the mRNA vaccines may not need booster shots, with ...
Vaccinate the world against COVID? Why the ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to protect the world’s poor failed
The Covax program, conceived in early 2020 as a kind of Operation Warp Speed for the globe, was supposed to ...
Why are vaccine passports running into such intense opposition?
[A]s gyms, theaters, and airplanes also start making new rules, it's still unclear exactly how they'll verify vaccinations or how ...
Video: Why does genetic modification have such a bad reputation? A conversation with Bayer GMO scientist Larry Gilbertson
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Otherwise known as CRISPR, it is a term many people know is associated with ...
Kenya approves disease-resistant GMO cassava
In yet another big win for its smallholder farmers, Kenya has become the first country globally to approve national performance ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why I dropped out of a COVID vaccine trial midway through
I’ve been wrestling with a dilemma the past few weeks: Do I stay in the COVID-19 vaccine trial I’ve been ...
In an unprecedented move hoping to quell criticism, FDA releases documents detailing messy internal debate over Biogen’s dementia drug Aduhelm
[A] series of documents [were released June 22] by the FDA to explain its decision to use a truncated pathway, ...
COVID vaccine booster? Here are 7 reasons why we might not need one
Plenty of research in COVID-19 indicates a likely long-lasting response to the vaccine or infection. Here are seven of the ...
GM crops: ‘Let the farmers decide’
A South African scientist says it’s about time African governments prioritized the interests of farmers and allow them to use ...
In civil disobedience challenge to ongoing GMO ban, Indian farmers’ union illegally provides herbicide-resistant cotton seeds to farmers
Farmers’ union Shetkari Sanghatana has announced that it will provide farmers seeds of the unapproved herbicide tolerant (Ht) Bt cotton ...
Vaccine disinformation and conspiracy theories run wild in California among Mexican farm workers. Here’s what’s being done to address that
For months, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories had ripped across northern California’s wine country, invisible wildfires of untruth spreading through some of ...
The mRNA biotechnology revolution unleashed by COVID vaccine breakthroughs is just beginning — and it will impact disease research for decades to come
The messenger RNA, or mRNA, platform may be new to the global public, but it's a technology that researchers had ...
Climate adaptive, drought resistant GMO wheat is nearing introduction in Brazil. Might Canada be next?
Bioceres, an Argentine biotech company, has released a genetically modified wheat variety that is both drought-tolerant and resistant to glufosinate-ammonium ...
Detecting COVID-19 with a one-second test? It’s now possible
A group of scientists from the United States and Taiwan say they have developed a test that can detect whether ...
Viewpoint: Why are some people hesitant to get vaccines? It may have more to do with hard-wired personality than politics
After conducting a national survey of U.S. adults, we grouped people into distinct profiles based on their shared beliefs and ...
Republicans, people of color, the young, less educated and uninsured — these are the groups most likely to remain unvaccinated, poll shows
Unvaccinated adults are a shrinking population in the U.S. that, as of late May 2021, consists of about one-third of ...
Global COVID vaccine supply crunch? Wealthy developed countries snap up two years of supplies, hardening rich-poor divide
The European Union, Canada and other developed countries have signed deals to get hundreds of millions of doses of Covid-19 ...
Viewpoint: Who is behind anti-vax propaganda claiming COVID shots are killing people? Meet disinformation provocateurs Peter McCullough, Mike Adams and RFK, Jr.
At the extreme end of the antivax hysteria is, as one might expect, Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com proclaiming... VACCINE HOLOCAUST ...
Viewpoint: Debating the debate over the new stem cell research guidelines
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing, ...
In between belly rubs, dogs are on the front lines in hunting down COVID
[T]hree Labradors, operating out of a university clinic in Bangkok, are part of a global corps of dogs being trained ...
Nearly 500 Trump-voting US counties have less than 25% of their populations vaccinated, opening door to fall COVID revival
As much of the country emerges from masking and social distancing, undervaccinated pockets in the U.S. still threaten to bring ...
COVID vaccines aren’t generating antibodies for 10 million people in the US alone, including transplant recipients, who take immunosuppressants. What should they do?
For many people like [Alicia Merritt,] a liver transplant patient who must take immunosuppressants daily to prevent her body from ...
Long wary of consumer backlash against GMO crops, China is quickly, but quietly, embracing agricultural biotechnology to meet rising food demands and decrease foreign influence
China has long developed higher-yielding varieties of rice and corn through crossbreeding. Nowadays, genetically modified organisms have become increasingly prevalent ...
USDA moves ahead with ‘sweeping reforms’ to biotech animal regulations
USDA is moving ahead with making sweeping reforms to how biotech animals are regulated, according to the first regulatory agenda ...
Zambia’s biosafety authority set to destroy 2,000 tons of GMO seeds in accordance with country’s ban
The [Zambian] National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has seized over 2,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) maize seed. Communications officer Sandra ...
