Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Commentary: GMO grass mix-up is embarrassing
Last week, reports flew through over the internet and the social media universe that cows in Texas were dying from ...
Epigenetics alters genes in rheumatoid arthritis
A research team at the University of California, San Diego – led by Gary S. Firestein, professor in the Division ...
Scientists develop genetically modified dairy cows
Chinese scientists have genetically modifying dairy cows to produce milk with different properties, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports ...
GM canola contamination leads to court showdown
Australia's system of organic certification will come under intense scrutiny when two neighbouring farmers do battle in the Western Australian ...
Melon genome obtained
A consortium of nine research centres has obtained the melon genome, a horticultural specie with high economic value around the ...
Call to push GM crops to boost farm output
The need for the application of new technologies to increase farm output and seed yields, including genetically modified crops, was ...
Yak genome provides new insights into high altitude adaptation
Scientists have completed the genomic sequence and analyses of a female domestic yak, which provides important insights into understanding mammalian ...
Genes for breast size found
Researchers have identified seven genetic markers linked with a woman's breast size, according to a new study. While it's was ...
Scientists tie DNA repair to key cell signaling network
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found a surprising connection between a key DNA-repair process and a ...
Nigeria: Stakeholders challenge President Jonathan over agricultural biotechnology law
Stakeholders including members of the National Assembly have berated President Goodluck Jonathan over his inability to assent into law till ...
Common diabetes drug promotes development of brain stem cells
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat Type II ...
Chinese scientists identify yield-boosting rice gene
Researchers in China have identified a rice gene that could improve both the quality and yield of the staple crop ...
Genetic weakness to cancer found to be reversible
The cause and effect relationships between these mechanisms are easier to delineate than the cellular action of either carcinogens or ...
The genetic legacy of “Jewish Catholics”
At the time of the expulsion of 1492, Sephardi Jewry comprised the vast majority of world Jewry, totaling about 400,000 ...
Pressure groups intensify campaign to derail GM guidance
Pressure groups Friends of the Earth (FoE) and GM Freeze have stepped up their campaign to derail EU safety guidelines ...
More genes pegged to Osteoarthritis
A large genome-wide association study has identified eight new loci that confer susceptibility to osteoarthritis, researchers reported ...
Genetically modified cotton gets high marks in India
Smallholder farmers in central and southern India who planted genetically modified (GM) cotton achieve larger yields, greater profits and a ...
The black is a better athlete?
Michael Johnson, the 4-time Olympic Gold Medal winning sprinter, is standing by his assertion that black athletes have a "speed ...
Transgenic technique to ‘eliminate’ a specific neural circuit of the brain in primates
In the brains of humans and non-human primates, over 100 billion nerve cells build up complicated neural circuits and produce ...
Nigeria: ‘Nigeria needs biotechnology to avoid starvation’
The chairman Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ayoade Ademola Adeseun, has said Nigeria needs biotechnology to save it from ...
GMO ban: Risks for science-based assessments
French President François Hollande will face judicial problems over the ban on the cultivation of genetically modified plants, and this ...
Organ printing from stem cells
Tissue engineering is bringing together advances from stem cell biology, microfluidics, robotics, and 3-D cell culture to develop novel products ...
Update on gene therapy
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) published proof-of-principle results showing a role for telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) ...
Is Monsanto sabotaging efforts to label genetically modified food?
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence ...
Cancer, data and the fallacy of the $1000 genome
Here’s Mark’s key message: The time of the $1000 genome meme is over. It served us well for years – ...
Slow EU approvals seen growing threat to soy trade
Slow European Union approval of genetically modified soybeans is likely to pose a growing threat to trade as the pace ...
Stem cells may cure liver failure
A way to revive failed livers through stem cells could be available within the next few years as clinical tests ...
