Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Somebody please get Sen. Lisa Luddite Murkowski, R-Alaska, down off her high-flying Frankenfish. Enough with the pandering to Alaska commercial ...

Dr. Ruthie Harper will tell you that beautiful skin starts from the inside out, and it's all about your DNA ...

Recent scientific progress includes the mapping of the entire human genetic code, or genome, which was completed in 2003, and ...

The much-anticipated opening of the Asian Regenerative Center for Cellular Therapies (ARCCT) will soon be taking stem cell therapy treatment ...

Recently, it was announced that Republican voters will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot question in the July ...

In efforts to harmonise national biosafety regulations across Africa, the links between national regulatory authorities and key stakeholders must be ...

Popular resistance is boiling over on the GMO labeling issue, as the New York Times reported last week in a ...

Even scientists promoting Bt eggplant are against excessive and injudicious use of chemical pesticides. In a press release, Dr. Emiliana ...

Genetic modification was supposed to be the ground-breaking science of the future. Its magic wand would feed the world and ...

Stem cells are mysterious. They are cells that make or replenish other cells. For example, when you donate blood, your ...

A new survey shows very few Americans cite biotechnology as an information need on food labels. Neither are most consumers ...

If the organisers of this weekend’s Take the Flour Back protest against the genetically modified wheat trial at Rothamsted in ...

Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” ...

Police kept hundreds of protesters at bay as they attempted to destroy a field where genetically modified wheat is being ...

This is one of those agonised posts. I actually like the Green Party. My dad used to be, and may ...

Scientists have identified a gene mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome, a rare disorder that causes stunted growth in babies, a ...

For researchers at the UK's Rothamsted research center, the past few weeks must have felt like a train wreck in ...

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital are extracting stem cells from the bone marrow of patients in need of hip repair ...

Genes play a greater role in forming character traits - such as self-control, decision making or sociability - than was ...

The battle over GM food has begun again and it seems there is little in common between those in favour ...

Ashkenazi Jews have historically been an endogamous population. Marrying within the group remains important to many Jews because endogamy is ...

When it comes to birth control, numerous options are available to women to help them regulate their menstrual cycle and ...

For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents ...

A team of researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the first in Africa to establish ...

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower ...

Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can ...

Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, ...