Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
DNA-damaging toxins found in common plant-based foods
The following is an excerpt. In a laboratory study pairing food chemistry and cancer biology, scientists at the Johns Hopkins ...
Get ready for a genetics-based marketplace
A new platform will help consumers control what offers they get from retailers based on their genetic makeup ...
Genetic engineering turns microbes into industrial powerhouses
Thanks to a new method of gene expression quality control, the next industrial revolution could be biological ...
Will animal-machine hybrids fight our next war?
The U.S. government is looking to animal-machine hybrids to safeguard the country and its citizens. The same advances that have ...
Scientists engineer extreme bacteria to make fuel from carbon dioxide
University of Georgia researchers recently used the mighty Pyrococcus furiosus, which usually eats carbohydrates and lives in super-heated waters or ...
Scientific sleight of hand and monarch butterflies
The following is an excerpt. A recent article entitled "Monsanto v Monarch Butterflies" begins by examining the argument that GMO ...
Interactive video: Synthetic viruses
BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains how British scientists have used a new technique to develop a synthetic virus which ...
GMO protestors would accomplish more by talking to the companies
The following is an excerpt. t seems that those who are against GEs are against them because of the actions ...
Synchrotron yields ‘safer’ vaccine
The following is an edited excerpt. Producing vaccines against viral threats is a potentially hazardous business and that's why manufacturers ...
Monsanto to waive some GMO soy royalties in Paraguay-farmers
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto Co has agreed to waive the collection of royalties for the use of technology ...
The womb’s strange epigenome
The following is an excerpt. This week, a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesdescribes a little-known feature ...
The inevitability of eugenics as preventative health
The following is an edited excerpt. The real fundamental issue here is that genes are at least somewhat in the ...
Hawaii latest state to back away from mandatory GMO labeling
The following is an excerpt. The Hawaii Senate committees on agriculture, consumer protection and health talked tough on Genetically Modified ...
Stem-cell ruling riles researchers
The following is an excerpt. Clinics that offer unproven stem-cell treatments often end up playing cat and mouse with health ...
Connecticut: ‘Frankenfoods’ or better living through biotechnology?
The following is an excerpt. State legislators, like most of us, generally aren’t rocket scientists, nor are they cutting-edge health ...
Genetic screening for cancer ‘within five years’
The following is an excerpt. A major research drive involving more than 1,000 experts has revealed more than 80 genes ...
Can China really breed a crop of genetically selected geniuses?
The following is an edited excerpt. What if science offered a way to stack the odds in favor of a ...
From fat to fuel: GM bacteria could convert waste into energy
The following is an edited excerpt. Plant waste has long been seen as a possible source of sustainable biofuels, and new ...
Alaskan legislature takes stand against GM salmon
The following is an edited excerpt. The Legislature passed a resolution against genetically modified salmon on Monday, sending a message ...
Gene therapy cures leukaemia in eight days
The following is an excerpt. Within just eight days of starting a novel gene therapy, David Aponte's "incurable" leukaemia had ...
Uganda’s genetically modified golden bananas
The following is an edited excerpt. Uganda's government has put a big emphasis on genetically modified crops as a way ...
Study finds strong genetic component to childhood obesity
The following is an excerpt. Previous research has shown that obesity runs in families, and twin studies suggest that this ...
My war against GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. In the late 1990s while on a visit to the USA I saw my ...
“De-extinction” and the definition of species
The following is an excerpt. A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except ...
Monsanto and DuPont settle GM seed battle
The following is an edited excerpt. DuPont Co will pay Monsanto Co at least $1.75 billion in a new licensing ...
Gene therapy may aid failing hearts
The following is an excerpt. In an animal study, researchers at the University of Washington show that it was possible ...
Peak farmland means more room for nature
The following is an edited excerpt. “Humanity now stands at Peak Farmland, and the 21st century will see release of ...
