Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

From early fetal tissue research to the first successful human treatments, this timeline documents the progress in stem cell science, ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to announce Wednesday that North Carolina and New York each will receive about $4 million ...

Fusarium graminearum is a notorious fungus that infects major crops, such as wheat, barley and corn, causing significant economic hardship ...

An Ontario company wants to help turn elephant grass into electrons at a biomass plant proposed for Hantsport. Pro Farm ...

The food industry is embroiled in a controversy over what critics call "Agent Orange corn." The genetically-modified vegetable is protected ...

Stanford postdoctoral scholar and cancer researcher Bikul Das, PhD, published some interesting findings in Stem Cells this morning regarding the ...

Science and technology hold the key to developing low-input, high-output agriculture. The challenge is to use new technologies creatively and ...

It was a major feat when more than a decade ago, scientists deciphered the first human genome, containing 22,000 or ...

For more than a decade, Europe has faced fierce debate over genetically modified organisms—specifically, consumer crops that have had their ...

With their potential to treat a wide range of diseases and uncover fundamental processes that lead to those diseases, embryonic ...

Doctors in Sweden have replaced a vital blocked blood vessel in a 10-year-old girl using the first vein grown in ...

The first patients to take part in a clinical trial of a stem cell treatment for stroke have seen reductions ...

The stories of research involving human embryonic stem cells and the policy governing that work are intertwined and stretch back ...

No wonder modern apocalyptic mythology about agriculture, sinister stories about pesticides and assertions that genetic engineering of crops break a ...

Last month, nearly 1m signatures were delivered to county registrars throughout California calling for a referendum on the labeling of ...

Fathers who wait until they're almost 40 to have children may provide a unique benefit to their offspring: longer lives ...

When autologous (self-donated) lung-derived mensenchymal stem cells (LMSCs) were transplanted endoscopically into 13 adult female sheep modeled with emphysema, post-transplant ...

The ministry of rural development on Tuesday welcomed a law on GMO-related activities, unanimously passed, which maximises chances of the ...

Would you want to know if you had a genetic risk factor forAlzheimer's or dementia? And, if you did know, ...

Crops genetically modified to poison pests can deliver significant environmental benefits, according to a study spanning two decades and 1.5m ...

Unbeknownst to Bennett, giving his wife a C-section might have affected their daughter’s DNA, her children’s and her grandchildren’s. People ...

EXCITING but terrifying. Powerful but scary. This is what some say about the emerging field of synthetic biology. Not surprising, ...

Zambia has consistently expressed its official opposition to GM crops, but as elsewhere in Africa, the pressure to adopt them ...

Biotechnology, an evolution of traditional agricultural methods and the fastest adopted crop technology in history, is not new to Pakistan ...

In my research for these articles to find newer items, ideas, and medical advancements for and about people with disabilities, ...

On May 23, 2012, John Rowan, national president of Vietnam Veterans of America, sent a letter to President Barack Obama ...

Advancements in human genetic research could lead to improved patient care, but safeguards are needed to protect against the misuse ...