Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

The Olympic Isle on opening night was "full of noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt ...

While society should be careful about its uses of genetic testing and its efforts to modify the genome, some people ...

At least one-third of Indonesia’s babies and toddlers below two years old are stunted as a result of being severely ...

Ever since American runner Jesse Owens took the 1936 Berlin Olympics by storm, black athletes have generally reigned supreme in ...

Anne Glover said there was no evidence GMs had any impact on human, environmental or animal health and said science ...

Lightning-quick reactions. In most sports, they form the foundation of victory. Nowhere is this more cut and dry than in ...

View the full report from the International Food Policy Research Institute to understand their position on the possible GM food ...

Genetic variability revealed in malaria genomes newly sequenced by two multi-national research teams points to new challenges in efforts to ...

Organic, free-range, grass-fed — you need a dictionary just to get around the grocery store aisles these days. Products are ...

Two Australian farmers are warning New Zealanders to make sure their country remains free of genetically engineered and modified organisms ...

Not everyone is as excited about GM sweet corn coming to supermarket shelves as Walmart is. The supermarket giant recently ...

As I watch the Olympics this week I’m particularly interested in the stories about some of the athletes as kids, ...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have figured out how stem cells found in a part of the ...

When you hear the words genetically modified organism, GMO, or gen-mod food, what is your initial reaction? Does the thought ...

A lot of attention has been placed on the genetics of cancer, including looking at the mutations that occur that ...

Nigerians are still apprehensive of Genetically Modified foods despite the fact that they are safe for consumption, the National Agricultural ...

A new genetic map paints a comprehensive picture of the 2,000 or so years in which different Jewish groups migrated ...

Attempting to end a years-long argument no one was winning, the Oregon Department of Agriculture decided to expand the areas ...

At a recent conference on biotechnology held in Accra, Ghana, Professor Jonathan Padi Tetteh stated that GM foods pose no ...

There have been "marathon mice", "Schwarzenegger mice" and dogs whose wasted muscles were repaired with injected substances that switch off ...

In a breakthrough study, researchers have uncovered how green vegetables fight diseases. Numerous studies have found cruciferous vegetables such as ...

With the California general election less than four months away, pesticide manufacturers gave more than $750,000 [Update: this number has ...

Synthetic biology is getting a boost. So far, most researchers have designed their synthetic circuits using transcription factors found in ...

The debates about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) echo other science related stories, particularly the discussion of whether food makers should ...

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have teamed up with their counterparts all over the world, working to develop human ...

Recent forecasts indicate that the current century could be the hungriest on record, with the global population estimated to increase ...

A California biotech company announced that its human stem cells restored memory in rodents bred to have an Alzheimer's-like condition—the ...