Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Producing better quality melons with guaranteed results before planting; this will be possible thanks to the "Melonomics" project, involving several ...

The key to cloning a woolly mammoth may be locked into the Siberian permafrost. At least, that’s what scientists in ...

Racial categories are currently ubiquitous in medicine and medical research. How are these categories determined? Is there uniformity from one ...

It took mankind millennia of painstaking trial and error to breed hardier, healthier food crops. "We can't wait that long ...

The largest study of genetic variance across present-day populations in southern Africa suggests that there is no single place in ...

The House of Representatives passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2007 on Wednesday, April 25. GINA is expected ...

Many people may wonder how they would react in an emergency situation, one that could involve risking their lives to ...

In a particular bind in this fight are the many mainstream food conglomerates that now own organic brands, which by ...

The ageing process adversely affects the quantity of the bone marrow stem cells, was the finding by the Indo-Japan joint ...

Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives has started using genetic engineering to ‘modify’ seeds and control diseases that inhibit ...

Rats fed either genetically engineered corn or the herbicide Roundup had an increased risk of developing tumors, suffering organ damage ...

From poultry products to fish, potatoes to apples, Johnson Moyo, a primary school teacher in Bulawayo, has come to enjoy ...

Until Californians go to the ballot box on Nov. 6, rhetoric from both supporters and opponents of the state’s Proposition ...

Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have found a new way of using gene therapy to treat obesity. The ...

Stem cell technology has the potential to revolutionize medicine, but the revolution has been considerably slower than expected. Government restrictions ...

In a new study, scientists were able to restore partial hearing to deaf gerbils by implanting human embryonic stem cells ...

It's not necessarily a negative thing for us to become less human, says transhumanist politician Giuseppe Vatinno ...

“In mapping the entire genome of a tumor from a patient with advanced bladder cancer, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering have ...

Sorghum is an ideal candidate because of its drought tolerance, adaptability to diverse growing conditions, low nitrogen fertilizer requirements, and ...

A WA consultant in crop breeding and biotechnology has questioned the credibility of a report that suggests a variety of ...

A UNITED States cattle reproduction expert has urged Australian dairy farmers to take reproduction in their herds more seriously ...

The Ministry of Health's investigation into a controversial US-backed genetically modified rice research project in Hunan province raises a wider ...

The genetics community needs to work far more collaboratively if it is to meet the challenges of the genomic era, ...

One small change to the DNA sequence can cause more weighty changes to the human body, according to a new ...

New research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on September 16, 2012, and reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site ...

Slate reposts a piece from New Scientist, Do You Really Want To Know Your Baby’s Genetics? It is arranged as ...

Genetically modified crops are an answer to improve crop yield and help maintain high food production, industry experts have said ...