Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Political leanings and Prop 37: Do they correlate?
San Francisco supported Proposition 37!Discover Magazine (blog)A few weeks ago I alluded to the controversy around proposition 37. This was ...
Anti-allergen milk has unforeseen dangers
Also due to the regulatory incompetence which, it seems, is having “a chilling effect on animal biotech efforts”, GM animal ...
Cancer can teach us about our own evolution
Cancer, it seems, is embedded in the basic machinery of life, a type of default state that can be triggered ...
Genetic screening and “toxic information”
The term “toxic knowledge” has been used to describe genetic information that individuals may regret learning, following a prenatal genetic ...
In defense of eugenics
I expect that belief in eugenics is far more prevalent than most people would comfortably wish it to be. One ...
The “junk” in your genetic trunk isn’t junk at all
The non-coding or ‘junk’ regions can help switch genes on or off which, in turn, influences whether a cell makes ...
Justice Department ends Monsanto antitrust probe
The Department of Justice has announced that Monsanto Co. is no longer the target of an antitrust investigation, saying it will ...
Genomics data could make steaks more tender
Genetic Testing In The Steak-House. DNA analyses may help select the best breeds by predicting how beef will taste once ...
Did Monsanto plant GMO seeds before USDA approval?
Recently evidence has surfaced showing that Monsanto's genetically altered alfalfa may have been set free in 2003 — a full ...
Prop 37: The failure of a fringe group
Those who fight against genetically engineered crops are fast becoming a fringe group. Despite years of hard scientific facts, they ...
Mosaic genomes could complicate genetic screening
Science a GogoDNA fluidity has "profound implications" for genetic screening, say Yale ...Science a GogoThe idea that every cell in ...
Futurist Nicola Tesla was a eugenicist
ForbesTesla, Eugenics And Rationalizing DehumanizationForbesThe year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival ...
The age of personalized medicine is upon us
Stanford's Mike Snyder Starts Living the Personalized Medicine StoryXconomySay the words “personalized medicine” to people from various walks of life, ...
Stem cells help paralyzed dog to walk again
Daily MailDogs paralysed by spine damage are able to walk again following pioneering ...Daily MailEarlier tests on paralysed rats showed ...
Bioethics group opposes mitochondrial replacement
The Christian InstituteOppose GM babies, bioethics group saysThe Christian InstituteTechniques which would create genetically modified babies should be “urgently opposed”, ...
Russia needs to defend itself against GMOs
Russia needs to enter a five-year moratorium on the use of GMO food products and growing of GMP plants. This ...
Will Obama deliver on campaign promise of GMO labeling?
The stance of the Barack Obama administration on genetically modified foods (GMOs) has been under great scrutiny for many years, ...
Thanksgiving: Millions will celebrate with a turkey that could never exist in nature
They will carve a bird with an oversize breast and legs too puny for walking. After more than a half-century ...
Why did Prop 37 fail? It wasn’t just the money
Michele R. Simon, a lawyer and paid writer and spokesperson for the Yes on 37 campaign argued that it lost ...
What will it take to convince people GM foods are safe?
Genetically modified foods are a hot button issue for a lot of people. Just a few weeks ago, California voters ...
How did “biotechnology” become a dirty word?
How did the word biotechnology become so dangerous? Mention it in a group and people look at you with suspicion ...
Should we be worried about Obama’s DNA getting hacked? (Video)
An article in The Atlantic suggests hacking the President's DNA is actually a viable assassination threat. It sounds like something ...
Biotechnology and green “urbaneering” go hand-in-hand
Mitchell Joachim, an associate professor at NYU and co-president of Terreform ONE , a nonprofit design organization based in Brooklyn ...
New genetic test for fetus may provide more questions than answers
The new method, called chromosomal microarray technology, is providing doctors and prospective parents with more information than ever before about ...
Genetically Modified: two words worth $45 million
Despite significant popular support for the labeling of genetically modified foods in recent polls, when it came time to vote ...
The genes we eat: a conversation
Many worry that genetic advances could result in risks to our health and the environment—concerns that surfaced again in the ...
Telomeres linked to death risk in data from largest U.S. “biobank”
Researchers who have assembled a trove of genetic and medical data on 100,000 northern Californians unveiled their initial findings here ...
