Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
New stem cell controversy: Possibility of stem cells in ovarian eggs could revolutionize in vitro
Are women born with all the eggs they will ever have, or do they possess the ability to make more? ...
Magnetic tracer safe for stem cell therapies
Cardiac stem cells and other cell-based therapies can be tracked to their destination by adding tiny magnetic particles visible on ...
GM crops on the rise in Portugal
The growing of genetically modified (GM) corn in Portugal increased by 59 percent last year, being planted in 7,724 hectares ...
GMO labeling measure receives prop number for November ballot
California’s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act will be on November’s ballot as Proposition 37, according to proposition numbers ...
First stem-cell fraud case enters courts
Stem cell tourism may be on its last legs. Six Los Angeles residents are suing South Korean company RNL Bio ...
Discoverer of DNA says yes to genetically modified food
Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, credited for the landmark discovery of the structure of the DNA, says "genetically modified foods ...
New GM apple that won’t turn brown stirs concerns from NGOs, conventional growers
A genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised is in development. But it has much ...
Drought scorches much of US corn crop, but plant technology could still provide huge harvest
Almost a third of the nation’s corn crop has been damaged by heat and drought, and a number of farmers ...
Banana genome sequence will aid crop improvement
Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the banana, an important crop in developing countries that provides a fruit widely ...
Stem cells restore toddler’s hearing
Madeleine Connor, 2, underwent an experimental procedure using her own cord blood stem cells to repair damaged tissue in her ...
Personalized genomic medicine faces many hurdles
When the human genome project was completed in 2003, some expected it to herald a new age of personalized genomic ...
New study shows GM crops tend to perform better than conventional
A paper published by Areal, Riesgo and Rodriguez-Cerezo in the Journal of Agricultural Science showed that genetically modified crops cultivated ...
Should genetic screening be more supervised?
Thirteen-day-old Boxi is a "designer baby", genetically selected as her stem cells can be used to save her sister. We ...
A costly California food labeling proposal
The state of California is all but bankrupt–yet professional activists have figured out a way to send us even further ...
Newly isolated ‘Beige fat’ cells could help fight obesity
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a new type of energy-burning fat cell in adult humans which they say ...
Cells derived from burn tissue may be useful for tissue engineering
A research team in the Netherlands has found that cells from burn eschar, the non-viable tissue remaining after burn injury ...
Can biotechnology solve China’s food security problem?
When talking about agriculture in China, you are likely hear two statistics over and over again: China is home to ...
Scientists identify rare gene mutation that protects against Alzheimer’s
After years of studying genes that increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists report the promising discovery of DNA that does ...
Anti-GMO groups protesting farmer assurance
Organizations that are anti-biotech are throwing a fit over the “farmers assurance provision” that was included in the House of ...
Some insurers hesitate to embrace genetic testing
"For some people, the first symptom of this is cardiac arrest — they drop dead on the soccer field, the ...
Projecting agricultural impacts of climate change, can GM crops help?
In a summer like this, as we watch crop conditions wither in record-setting heat and dry conditions, we might wonder ...
Pediatric tumors traced to stem cells in developing brain
Stem cells that come from a specific part of the developing brain help fuel the growth of brain tumors caused ...
Rice lands on the radar of GMO researchers
On most GI charts, as illustrated on the Harvard Medical School website, the GI score for rice is an average ...
Article addresses tremendous impact of genetic testing for Alzheimer’s
Genetic tests exist to identify risk for the rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to predict susceptibility ...
Bacterial gene ‘therapy’ to combat cholera
Cholera is an extremely virulent intestinal infection caused by ingestion of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae). EU researchers elucidated ...
Skin cancer-promoting gene discovered
Researchers have discovered a gene that plays a central role in black skin cancer, also known as melanoma. Suppressing this ...
Are there any proven health risks associated with biotech food, articles helping to explain the confusion
Helping readers navigate the confusing controversy ...
