Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Supreme court may decide whether we own our genes
The following is an excerpt. They may be responsible for everything in your life, from conception to death, they may ...
Big Agriculture flexes its muscle
The following is an edited excerpt. Congress holds the purse strings, but who holds Congress these days when it comes ...
Privacy flap forces withdrawal of DNA data on cancer cell line
The following is an excerpt. On 11 March, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) issued a press release proudly announcing ...
Scientists published Henrietta Lacks’ genome without the consent of her family
The following is an excerpt. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a poor black mother of five living near Baltimore, died from ...
The Henrietta Lacks genome: Consent, trust, and common decency
The following is an edited excerpt. In today’s New York Times, Skloot commentson a recently published paper (PDF) detailing the complete genomic DNA sequence of ...
UK: Rothamsted looks to extend GM wheat trials
The following is an excerpt. The centre in Harpenden, which was attacked by anti-GM protesters for its aphid resistant wheat ...
The genetic information you didn’t ask for
Geneticists are urging doctors who sequence a patient's genome to also test them for 24 genetic conditions, and to alert ...
Should Monsanto be allowed to bring GM crops to Vietnam?
The following is an excerpt. HO CHI MINH CITY — It’s 5 a.m. and the streets already are buzzing. People ...
Cold-case prosecutors seek DNA from dead California inmates
The following is an edited excerpt. Opening a new frontier for solving cold cases, California prosecutors are hunting for DNA ...
GMOs are one solution to an ancient puzzle
The following is an excerpt. For decades now, GMOs have been railed against for producing food aplenty, but at grave ...
Schizophrenia about genetics
The following is an edited excerpt. The genetics of schizophrenia is a fertile if fraught topic. But I won’t be discussing that ...
Monsanto to debut new GMO soy in Brazil, pending China
The following is an excerpt. Monsanto Co hopes to roll out a new bioengineered, worm-resistant soybean seed for planting in ...
Bioinformaticians share their own DNA in personal genomics textbook
The following is an edited excerpt. When bioinformaticians Joel Dudley and Konrad Karczewski set out to write a new text ...
Genetic modification strains old food and drug laws
The following is an excerpt. When is a fish not a fish but a drug? When government regulators take old ...
Old mice, young blood: Reprogrammed stem cells rejuvinate blood
The following is an edited excerpt. The blood of young and old people differs. In an article published recently in ...
Fears about GMOs among some Ugandans unfounded
The following is an excerpt. GMO is ... one of the options that should be adopted to quicken the process ...
How a homely lemur’s genome may help save it
The following is an edited excerpt. With its wide-set yellow eyes, oversize ears and long, skeletal fingers, the aye-aye is ...
Monsanto teams up with Congress to shred the constitution
The following is an excerpt. Our founding fathers, white maleness aside, did get a few things right. One of them ...
Doctors should tell patients about some — not all — unexpected genetic findings
The following is an excerpt. On Thursday [21 March 2013], the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell ...
Can a genetically modified potato fight off blight?
The following is an edited excerpt. Ewen Mullins is the face of modern Ireland: Young, cosmopolitan, highly educated, he is ...
Why is Vermont’s governor Peter Shumlin bowing to Monsanto?
The following is an edited excerpt. After three years of trying to get a law passed by the Vermont legislature ...
Who wants to live alongside sabre-toothed tigers?
The following is an excerpt. A few weeks back I chanced across a post by Carla Sinclair at BoingBoing in which she ...
Heath hits out at ‘international hypocrisy’ on GM
The following is an edited excerpt. Farming Minister David Heath has hit out at the ‘international hypocrisy’ he claims exists ...
Gene therapy could treat cancer
The following is an excerpt. A clinical trial using a patient's own immune system to produce remissions in adults with ...
Genetic analysis saves major apple-producing region of Washington State
The following is an edited excerpt. In August 2011, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were presented with a ...
Mutations behind inflammatory disease were an adaptation
The following is an excerpt. Multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammatory diseases may result from mutated genes that were once positive ...
Hawaii senate committees kill GMO labeling bill
The following is an edited excerpt. Three committees of the Hawaii Senate Thursday heard the House proposal to require labels ...
