Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

The Sugar Land company involved in Gov. Rick Perry's unlicensed adult stem-cell procedure is rife with basic manufacturing problems, according ...

Following a study that could have significant implications for the fields of genetic engineering and genomics research, investigators at the ...

Malnutrition and starvation are problems that occur all over the world, primarily in developing countries. In coming years, as climate ...

Spanish researchers have discovered the complete mitochondrial DNA of an individual that lived 7000 years ago. This discovery is the ...

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have uncovered a link between two genes which shows how stem cells could ...

Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, but the commercialization of ...

Genetic modification of food has happened for thousands of year. Tomatoes would still be the size of your thumb without ...

GENETIC experts in the North East have developed a pioneering test that will improve the speed of diagnosis for an ...

With two big cats needing attention, surgeon Brian Beale of Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists and stem-cell specialists at InGeneron Inc ...

DTC genetic testing comes in many forms, such as carrier tests for genetic disease, ancestry tests, and nutrigenomic tests. At ...

Plant geneticists say they have discovered an answer to a near universal question: Why are tomatoes usually so tasteless? ...

While the use of GM crops is rapidly taking over the world, some countries have taken the bold step to ...

The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...

The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...

It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...

An international consortium of Huntington’s disease experts, including several from the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at ...

Forget patches: gene therapy could suppress cigarette cravings by preventing the brain from receiving nicotine. The treatment is effective in ...

For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patients' fibroblast cells (common cells found in connective tissue) into stem ...

"Without question, man's knowledge of man is undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo. In many ways personalized medicine is already ...

In a new study, researchers have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, thereby paving the way for a ...

There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but ...

The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...

Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...

Since biotechnology-derived crops were introduced in 1996, they have been adopted at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2011 annual ...

Chinese scientists have developed and unveiled a genetically modified cow whose milk they claim is healthier, triggering fresh alarm over ...

Researchers in Japan who evaluated the risks and efficacy of transplanting two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have ...

The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...