Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

On most GI charts, as illustrated on the Harvard Medical School website, the GI score for rice is an average ...

Genetic tests exist to identify risk for the rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to predict susceptibility ...

Over the past 18 months, 81-year-old Bill Bunnell has visited the doctor a half-dozen times to take memory tests, provide ...

Covering farm technology means being on the scene with ag biotech too. From the first days of tomatoes that had ...

An experimental gene therapy for HIV may actually be easier—and even safer—than experts originally hoped. Experimenting with zinc finger nucleases ...

Two postings back, I promised a commenter called Sierkovitz that I would discuss epigenetics. This is an important subject with ...

Scientists could take greater strides toward crop improvement if there were wider adoption of advanced techniques used to understand the ...

Let us first state that this is not an anti-genetically modified organisms article. Given the right biotechnology, at the right ...

When it comes to life or death, genetically modified organisms win out over leaving the environment untouched, and those with ...

Jews should no longer be categorized by their ethnic origin when being tested for hereditary conditions, says the Health Ministry ...

Critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) affects 300 infants in Virginia each year. Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed a work group ...

A biofuel company hopes plots of high-sugar “energy beets” will fuel an ethanol project ...

In Williamsburg, a bustling Brooklyn enclave across the East River from Manhattan, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews dresses in garb ...

Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...

Future genetic therapy could be as simple as applying a topical lotion, with nanoscale compounds soaking through your epidermis to ...

SPORTING bakers' hats, aprons and wooden spoons, a coach-load of Totnes residents joined a national protest in Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, against ...

Reprogramming asthma-promoting immune cells in mice diminishes airway damage and inflammation, and could potentially lead to new treatments for people ...

Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak it can't effectively pump blood through ...

Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...

To date, few fundamentals have been known about the most common gland in the body, the sweat glands that are ...

While the new Labelling and Adver- tising of Foodstuffs Regulations (GN R146), which came into effect in March, is offering ...

Mrs. McDaniel, the 69-year-old wife of a retired corporate executive, had gambled on the ultimate in personalized medicine, an approach ...

A research team at the University of California, San Diego – led by Gary S. Firestein, professor in the Division ...

Last week, reports flew through over the internet and the social media universe that cows in Texas were dying from ...

A consortium of nine research centres has obtained the melon genome, a horticultural specie with high economic value around the ...

Chinese scientists have genetically modifying dairy cows to produce milk with different properties, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports ...

Researchers have identified seven genetic markers linked with a woman's breast size, according to a new study. While it's was ...