Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Will Monsanto destroy Mexico’s corn?
Aljazeera.comWill Monsanto destroy Mexico's corn?Aljazeera.comThose in the North fear the high costs and debts associated with transgenic corn, while the ...
The future of food: Are there alternatives to GMOs?
By 2050, we need to figure out how to not only feed but also nourish the three billion new people ...
Indian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seeds
India TodayIndian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seedsIndia TodayCertain tests conducted in 2004 at the National Research ...
We’re overselling the health-care ‘revolution’ of personal genomics
In the very near future, we’ll all be able to have our entire genome – all our genetic information – ...
Personalized medicine for prostate cancer: Promise of the future
Personalized medicine is treatment specific for a patient based on his or her genetic makeup. It doesn’t involve designing a ...
Cancers better at manipulation of host genes than thought
Cancer cells are derived from our very own stock, being based on our very DNA. Yet they are able to ...
“RIPE” project to increase crops’ photosynthetic efficiency
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five–year, $25-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ...
Researchers eager to create parentless embryos with stem cells
An international fertility conference early next year will teach participants how to create embryos with stem cells. The organisers for ...
Russia to tighten reigns on GMO industry
Russia will soon adopt a tough legislation to limit the cultivation, importation and use of GMO in feed production for ...
Why aren’t we arguing over stem cells anymore?
I'm sure if I did a deep enough Google search, I'd find some reference to stem cells coming up during the recent ...
Cells from human urine used to make stem cells
Biologists in China have published a study detailing how they transformed common cells found in human urine into neural stem ...
Genomic epidemiology: Tracking superbugs to their source
As concern grows over an increasing risk of deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a budding field of microbial research, ‘genomic epidemiology’, may ...
UK, Kenya, China: doing the GMO two-step
Gotta love the candor of UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, who reportedly called consumer opposition to genetically modified (GM) food ...
How the food movement is gaining strength
More and more people are realizing that our food chain is in crisis. Agribusiness has made profits more important than ...
Parents grapple with delving into their kids’ DNA
This week’s TIME cover story (available to subscribers here) asks a simple question with a complicated answer. Sophisticated DNA testing ...
“We’re not backing down,” says Pamm Larry, who led the charge to get Prop 37 on the ballot
One of the pro-37 campaigners [was] none other than Pamm Larry, the now internationally known grandmother from Chico who initiated ...
Uganda must beware of GM foods
The government of Uganda is in final stages of introducing Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the country as a quick ...
UK: GM food row sparked by DEFRA minister’s support
The row about genetically modified (GM) food re-ignited this week after a government minister said there were “real environmental benefits” associated with ...
We don’t know why Ethiopians breathe easy
Most people are aware that altitude imposes constraints on individual performance and function. Much of this is flexible; athletes who ...
Canada: Food security and GM food regulation growing issues
Food security a growing issueNorth Shore NewsRichmond, Powell River, Salt Spring Island, Nelson, Rossland and Kaslo have enacted bylaws banning ...
Arctic GMO apple: Is it getting closer?
Is the GMO apple getting closer to reality? I talked to one source this week who believes the USDA decision on the GMO ...
National Institute of Public Health: ENCODE project biggest research advance of 2012
1. ENCODEFor sheer scientific shock value this year, nothing beat the prosaically-named ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project. ENCODE, funded by ...
Efficacy of tobacco taxes tied to genes
Tobacco use has declined sharply since the 1960s, but for the past 20 years about 20 percent of the population ...
Homosexuality linked to epigentics
As long as natural selection has been an accepted scientific theory, homosexuality has been a riddle for scientists. If a ...
Honeybee epigenetics may explain why bees are so sensitive to environmental changes
Scientists from the University of Sheffield, Queen Mary, University of London and the Australian National University, have found that honeybees ...
Scottish government responds to UK minister’s pro-GM comments
In view of the UK Food Minister's pronouncements on GM today ('Food minister Owen Paterson backs GM crops') we publish ...
New evidence of Prop 37 voting fraud?
After election day most of us heard that Prop 37, the initiative to label GMO foods failed to gather enough ...
