Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
In defense of GM crops: Pro-biotech writer explains why GM crops save money and lives
A recent scientific study in Nature reported that merely cultivating GM crops provided a healthy boost to the local ecosystem, ...
China: Australia can feed our “dining boom” with GM crops
The Australian government’s first national food strategy underscores what agricultural scientists have been saying for the past decade – that ...
Should pregnant women be offered genome screening for their unborn baby?
With researchers announcing this week that they were able to sequence the genome of a fetus using only a blood ...
House Ag Committee takes aim GMO regulation, says anti-biotech writer
Surprising no one, the House agriculture committee has passed a boldly regressive farm bill draft—trumping the recently approved Senate version ...
Physicians need more education on personalized medicine
Consumers armed with genetic testing information from the likes of 23andMe and a whole host of gene testing companies are ...
Synthetic biology: New frontiers, and a DNA laser printer?
It’s been a good month for synthetic biology. A few weeks ago, in a great talk (on the concept of ...
Safety fears over use of GM animals
The first step towards approving the use of genetically modified animals to make so-called ‘Frankenstein foods’ has been unveiled by ...
Cells get a makeover, cancer follows: A path to new therapies or warning to stem cell alchemists?
Scientists keep finding new ways to play with cells and make them alter their behavior, even their identity ...
Researchers identify mechanisms that allow embryonic stem cells to become any cell in the body
New research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on pluripotency—the ability of embryonic stem cells to renew themselves ...
Protest grows against releasing genetically altered bugs
A counter tracking online signatures to a petition that protests a Florida Keys mosquito-control plan changed by the minute Friday, ...
Foods of the future: What you’ll be eating in 2035
In a new book, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food, author Josh Schonwald examines how foodies, ...
Are Ethiopians descended from the Queen of Sheba?
Razib Khan of Discover Magazine’s Gene Expression blog, challenges the facile reporting in a slew of articles based on an ...
India: Maharashtra may ban Monsanto’s Bt cotton
Maharashtra’s Minister for Agriculture, Mr Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, told Business Line that the State Government was left with no other ...
USDA seeks comment on nine biotech crops in bid to speed reviews
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public input on nine new genetically modified crops developed by companies such as ...
Agricultural biotechnology to develop genetically-engineered plants
Genetically modified mosquitoes are the newest ammunition against the worldwide fear of dengue fever. Brazilian scientists are ready to release ...
Gates drops $10 million to develop GM crops
British scientists have won a £6.4 million grant to develop GM crops – one of the largest single investments into ...
Native Americans migrated to the New World in three waves, Harvard-led DNA analysis shows
An exhaustive study of DNA taken from dozens of Native American groups that span from Canada to the tip of ...
Scientist on a mission to save Africa’s forests
So how is Roux's work and research innovative? "It's because I am addressing tree health by looking at fungi and ...
Anti-biotech food activists’ drive for mandatory labeling takes a double hit
Opponents of agriculture biotechnology have been loudly hailing the certification of a mandatory genetically enhanced food labeling ballot initiative in ...
Researchers turn skin cells into brain cells, a promising path to better Parkinson’s treatment
Using adult stem cells, Johns Hopkins researchers and a consortium of colleagues nationwide say they have generated the type of ...
Genetic tests for Alzheimer’s disease a comfort for the majority
Several genetic tests are available for Alzheimer’s disease, both for the general public and for those with a family history ...
Gene therapy treatment extends lives of mice with fatal disease
A team of University of Missouri researchers has found that introducing a missing gene into the central nervous system could ...
Dispelling myths about Jews and genetics
The current issue of Moment, the Jewish-focused general interest magazine, has an informative, fascinating feature of the medical and historical ...
Salt cress genome yields new clues to salt tolerance
An international team, led by Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, and BGI, the world's largest ...
A greener way to raise cotton and combat nematodes
Richard Davis, a plant pathologist with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Tifton, Ga., and his colleagues are hunting for ...
Seeking a splice for better rice
A research team led by Kazuki Saito and Fumio Matsuda of the RIKEN Plant Science Center in Yokohama has begun ...
GMO in sport: Genetically Modified Olympians?
As athletes get ready to smash Olympic records in London, scientists are in a high-stakes race of their own to ...
