Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Of flies and men: Scientists make interesting discovery of how flies regulate sex genes, could be important for humans in the future
What do you get when you dissect 10 000 fruit-fly larvae? A team of researchers led by the EMBL-European Bioinformatics ...
FDA balances costs, patient safety in the biologics and personalized medicine revolution
Sometimes what you see is not all you get. Whether or not you support healthcare reform, the implementation of any ...
Scientist lashes ‘irrational’ green groups for hypocrisy over GM crops
A pre-eminent Australian crop scientist and the former head of the world wheat breeding centre has launched a scathing attack ...
Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight
Efforts to write benefits for biotech seed companies into U.S. legislation, including the new Farm Bill, are sparking a backlash ...
Senior advisor on biotechnology to US Secretary of State says Europeans are “strongly against GM foods”
Jack Bobo, senior adviser on biotechnology to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, recently delivered a talk at University College ...
Epigenetics III: Further look into epigenetics, evolution and the environment: How are they all connected?
In this article, James A. Shapiro, professor of microbiology, explains the genetic relationships between epigenetics, evolution and the environment ...
In defense of GM crops: Pro-biotech writer explains why GM crops save money and lives
A recent scientific study in Nature reported that merely cultivating GM crops provided a healthy boost to the local ecosystem, ...
World’s first patient-initiated, crowdfunded genome sequencing project uncovers young child’s unknown genetic disease
The Rare Genomics Institute (RGI), a non-profit organization that uses genome sequencing and other biotechnology to help children with rare ...
China: Australia can feed our “dining boom” with GM crops
The Australian government’s first national food strategy underscores what agricultural scientists have been saying for the past decade – that ...
Arizona statute on genetic testing has young boy’s future in limbo
Evan Serrano, of Arizona, has a rare degenerative disorder called Friedreich Ataxia. At least, that's what doctors think. But Evan's ...
US and South American farmers unite to support biotechnology in the European Union
Farmers who produce 90 percent of the world’s soybean exports have joined forces to support biotechnology in the European Union ...
World renowned in vitro fertilization pioneer says stem cell acceptance is on the rise in the US
Public acceptance of stem cell therapies has increased in recent years, with a renowned global expert believing Australians could be ...
Biting into GMO apples: Are there any risks?
Last week The New York Times printed a story about the Arctic Apple, which is genetically engineered not to turn ...
Is IQ in the genes? The PC hypocrisy of intelligence studies.
In his new book, the brilliant psychologist James Flynn, of Otago University in New Zealand, has revealed that, for the ...
Tarnished medals: Will genetic engineering change the Olympics?
Will the Olympics as we know it survive genetic engineering? That seems to be the question behind a new opinion ...
Physicians need more education on personalized medicine
Consumers armed with genetic testing information from the likes of 23andMe and a whole host of gene testing companies are ...
Synthetic biology: New frontiers, and a DNA laser printer?
It’s been a good month for synthetic biology. A few weeks ago, in a great talk (on the concept of ...
House Ag Committee takes aim GMO regulation, says anti-biotech writer
Surprising no one, the House agriculture committee has passed a boldly regressive farm bill draft—trumping the recently approved Senate version ...
Protest grows against releasing genetically altered bugs
A counter tracking online signatures to a petition that protests a Florida Keys mosquito-control plan changed by the minute Friday, ...
Researchers identify mechanisms that allow embryonic stem cells to become any cell in the body
New research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on pluripotency—the ability of embryonic stem cells to renew themselves ...
Foods of the future: What you’ll be eating in 2035
In a new book, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food, author Josh Schonwald examines how foodies, ...
Cells get a makeover, cancer follows: A path to new therapies or warning to stem cell alchemists?
Scientists keep finding new ways to play with cells and make them alter their behavior, even their identity ...
Safety fears over use of GM animals
The first step towards approving the use of genetically modified animals to make so-called ‘Frankenstein foods’ has been unveiled by ...
Should pregnant women be offered genome screening for their unborn baby?
With researchers announcing this week that they were able to sequence the genome of a fetus using only a blood ...
India: Maharashtra may ban Monsanto’s Bt cotton
Maharashtra’s Minister for Agriculture, Mr Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, told Business Line that the State Government was left with no other ...
Anti-biotech food activists’ drive for mandatory labeling takes a double hit
Opponents of agriculture biotechnology have been loudly hailing the certification of a mandatory genetically enhanced food labeling ballot initiative in ...
Native Americans migrated to the New World in three waves, Harvard-led DNA analysis shows
An exhaustive study of DNA taken from dozens of Native American groups that span from Canada to the tip of ...
