Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
GM food labelling poses many questions
While the new Labelling and Adver- tising of Foodstuffs Regulations (GN R146), which came into effect in March, is offering ...
Canada: Growers say survey shows consumers oppose GM
Orchardists in Okanaga say they have all the evidence they need to fight the introduction of GM fruit. A national ...
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 ...
A topically applied skin lotion that modifies your genes
Future genetic therapy could be as simple as applying a topical lotion, with nanoscale compounds soaking through your epidermis to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cloned meat, milk as safe as traditional: EU Food Agency
Europe's food safety regulator said Thursday that food products like milk and meat from cloned farm animals are just as ...
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 ...
North Texas man among first to try stem cells for heart failure
Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak it can't effectively pump blood through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
More genes pegged to Osteoarthritis
A large genome-wide association study has identified eight new loci that confer susceptibility to osteoarthritis, researchers reported ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
