Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century ...

A man who says he’s at least half Native Hawaiian but doesn't have the records to prove it is suing ...

In some ways it’s remarkable that Rachel Carson is still controversial, as we’ve been reminded by this month’s 50th anniversary ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) released a statement reiterating its position on genetically modified crops. It continues to recognize the ...

In an article this week, Consumer Reports is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to set standards for how ...

Recently we learned that Europeans, especially North Europeans, are actually very North Eurasian genetically (see here). Then, last week, scientists ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like ...

Scientists announced Sunday that they have finished mapping virtually all of the genetic mutations in breast cancer, an effort that ...

A Norwegian study of twins expands the role of genetics in the development of a personality disorder, yet cautions that ...

Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her ...

The debate of whether New Zealand should grow genetically modified crops could be shifting away from the anti-GM stance the ...

The Khoe-San people of southern Africa have been recognised as one of the earliest-formed distinct human genetic groups for several ...

The first detailed maps of genetic activity in the human brain have been published online by scientists. This freely accessible ...

A genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago might be the answer to how early humans were able to ...

Genetically modified (GM) crops have so far been promoted as the 'breakthrough' technology that will help resolve food insecurity in ...

Much like the checkout clerk uses a machine that scans the barcodes on packages to identify what customers bought at ...

When a gene from bell and hot peppers is inserted into tomatoes, it not only imparts resistance to bacterial spot—a ...

Whole Foods Market, the upscale seller of organic products and other "natural" foods, has endorsed a California initiative that would ...

Last week a scientific paper appeared that reported that eating genetically modified (GM) corn causes cancer in rats. Specifically, the ...

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has documented the step-by-step process in which organisms evolve new functions. The ...

A comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain that reveals the activity of genes across the entire organ has been ...

A Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, which examined in detail the prospects and effects of cultivating genetically modified food crops, sought ...

Scientists have hit back against the criticism levelled at the research linking the world’s best-selling weedkiller and a strain of ...

In findings that are fundamentally reshaping the scientific understanding of breast cancer, researchers have identified four genetically distinct types of ...

A new toxicology study states that rats eating genetically modified food and the weedkiller Roundup develop huge tumors and die ...

Dr Peacock says one of his big disappointments is the way GM food crops have been represented as harmful to ...

Genetically modified corn could soon be used to mass-produce the enzymes used in rare-disease therapies, according to new research ...