Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
GM potatoes will be back
The following is an excerpt. KENNEWICK, Wash. -- A University of Idaho researcher says he's optimistic efforts to develop genetically ...
Russia: Compulsory registration of GMO products
The following is an excerpt. A bill to introduce compulsory registration of all products containing GM-components is in the final ...
Burger King finds horse DNA at Irish plant
The following is an excerpt. LONDON – Burger King has found traces of horse DNA at a plant that supplied ...
The importance of open data in genomics
The following is an excerpt. Yesterday a friend of mine who happens to be of doughty German and Scandinavian upper ...
DA proposes DNA testing for immigrants
The following is an excerpt. District Attorney Michael Ramos wrote a letter to congressional leaders, urging legislators to require DNA ...
Controversial stem-cell company moves treatment out of the United States
The following is an excerpt. US citizens who had pinned their hopes on a company being able to offer stem-cell ...
Mishandling of DNA evidence found in over 50 cases at NYC crime lab
The following is an excerpt. The New York City medical examiner’s office said Thursday that it had discovered more than ...
Genes not the only predictor of a human’s fate, even in identical twins
The following is an excerpt. On Jan. 16, Pauline Friedman Phillips, the woman who wrote under the pen name Abigail ...
Should Lance Armstrong be celebrated as a pioneer in human enhancement?
Technology and medicine are helping humans to go above-and-beyond our evolutionary limitations. As self-enhancement becomes more socially acceptable, allowing doping ...
The “right time” to have children
Are older parents trading the financial security of age for increased risk of disorders like Down syndrome, multiple or premature ...
Bringing back the Neanderthal genome the old-fashioned way
The following is an excerpt. With all the crazy talk about George Church and an adventurous young woman conspiring to bring back ...
EU report urges caution on GE food
The following is an excerpt. A new report, “Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation,” from the European Environment ...
The problem with the bioscience industry (video)
The following is an excerpt. Hilary Rose, co-author of Genes, Cells and Brains, argues that we should treat the medical claims ...
RNA fragments may yield rapid, accurate cancer diagnosis
The following is an excerpt. Cancer tumor cells shed microvesicles containing proteins and RNA fragments, called exosomes, into cerebral spinal fluid, ...
Indian farmers trapped and desperate
The following is an excerpt. A wave of suicides has swept through the Indian farming community in recent years as, ...
Cravings and addictions: It’s all down to genetics
The following is an excerpt. I'd like to think that DNA has a significant but limited impact on human achievement ...
Aztec conquest altered genetics of early Mexico inhabitants
The following is an excerpt. AUSTIN, Texas — For centuries, the fate of the original Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan, the ...
GMO labeling to appear on Washington State’s ballot
The following is an excerpt. Anti-biotechnology activists submitted 350,000 signatures from registered Washington voters to put a proposed genetic modification ...
No ‘silver bullet’ for feeding the world’s hungry
The following is an excerpt. What’s the greatest challenge to growing enough food to feed 7 billion – or even, ...
Anti-biotechs promote subsistence level farming
The following is an excerpt. The dream world lead by Luddites and New Age gurus are proposing a return to ...
Organic community ready to bounce back after 2012 setbacks
The following is an excerpt. The end of 2012 raised quite a few eyebrows and much ire as some quiet ...
What is a Filipino? Looking at DNA for the answers
The following is an excerpt. What's your mix? Remember that infamous advertising campaign a few months ago, which raised the ...
A brave new world of prenatal DNA sequencing
The following is an excerpt. Conventional methods for checking a baby’s genome for abnormalities require invasive procedures, such as using ...
Tissue donors deserve to know ‘moral risk’
The following is an excerpt. People who contribute tissue to biobanks have a right to basic information about how their ...
With anti-viral genes, T cells ward off HIV
The following is an excerpt. In his lab at the Gladstone Institutes, Leor Weinberger has developed a technique for harnessing stray bits of HIV - ...
The broken promises of the Human Genome Project
The following is an excerpt. Scientists begin with a fixed conclusion, hyperbolize the benefits of reaching it, and then spend ...
Neanderthal cloning: Morally wrong and scientifically challenging
Genetic imprinting limits the scientific value of cloning a Neanderthal ...
