Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public input on nine new genetically modified crops developed by companies such as ...

A team of University of Missouri researchers has found that introducing a missing gene into the central nervous system could ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes are the newest ammunition against the worldwide fear of dengue fever. Brazilian scientists are ready to release ...

The current issue of Moment, the Jewish-focused general interest magazine, has an informative, fascinating feature of the medical and historical ...

Razib Khan of Discover Magazine’s Gene Expression blog, challenges the facile reporting in a slew of articles based on an ...

British scientists have won a £6.4 million grant to develop GM crops – one of the largest single investments into ...

So how is Roux's work and research innovative? "It's because I am addressing tree health by looking at fungi and ...

Maharashtra’s Minister for Agriculture, Mr Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, told Business Line that the State Government was left with no other ...

Opponents of agriculture biotechnology have been loudly hailing the certification of a mandatory genetically enhanced food labeling ballot initiative in ...

For fans of equestrian sports, the very existence of clones holds out the possibility of a game-changer. It won’t be ...

One of the men who discovered the structure of DNA has turned his mind to another scientific conundrum – the ...

This is number two in my series of blogs on epigenetic control of genome restructuring and hereditary transmission of traits ...

As athletes get ready to smash Olympic records in London, scientists are in a high-stakes race of their own to ...

Researchers at The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with research partners overseas, have identified which lines of chickpea grow ...

Environment can have a strong influence on genes in the womb and could account for differences in identical twins, according ...

An international team, led by Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, and BGI, the world's largest ...

Richard Davis, a plant pathologist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Tifton, Ga., and his colleagues are hunting for ...

A research team led by Kazuki Saito and Fumio Matsuda of the RIKEN Plant Science Center in Yokohama has begun ...

Some doctors are asking if athletes should be genetically tested to see if they are at a greater risk for ...

Cardiac stem cells and other cell-based therapies can be tracked to their destination by adding tiny magnetic particles visible on ...

The growing of genetically modified (GM) corn in Portugal increased by 59 percent last year, being planted in 7,724 hectares ...

California’s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act will be on November’s ballot as Proposition 37, according to proposition numbers ...

Stem cell tourism may be on its last legs. Six Los Angeles residents are suing South Korean company RNL Bio ...

Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, credited for the landmark discovery of the structure of the DNA, says "genetically modified foods ...

Researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) - the bacterium has ...

The USDA is speeding up the public release of data about genetically engineered crops submitted by biotech developers. Under the ...

We’ve seen already how freely genetics borrows from grammar books to describe how DNA works. Linguistic analogies also help make ...