Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

When I first came across the topic of genetically modified food, I instantly imagined oversized vegetables on a crusade to ...

This year, at a faster pace than many industry insiders anticipated, we're seeing genomics enter the world of real-life care ...

Scientists at a British company have been able to genetically modify the Diamondback moth, one of the world’s most damaging ...

There should be no guilt or shame with an eating disorder. These feelings are common. But new research tells us ...

The California Secretary of State's office has announced that the Right to Know initiative to label genetically engineered foods will ...

Not too long ago, knowing the organ where a cancer first takes hold was generally all a doctor needed to ...

Gene therapy has been proven effective in inhibiting breast tumor growth in mice, marking a new pathway for cancer treatment, ...

States--including California and Vermont--are considering laws that would require that genetically modified foods be clearly labeled on the packaging. Nationwide, ...

Scientists have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory, paving the way for patients to have bro-ken bones ...

Tiny amounts of unapproved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be permitted in food imports to the European Union under draft ...

An experimental field of GMO plants, authorized in 1998 in Italy, is going to be destroyed during the next few ...

The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee — meant to regulate GM crop release — has been hit with a ...

The Government of Ghana has pledge its commitment towards the increment of cotton production in the country. To this end, ...

New tests for genetic screening of unborn babies will not be 100 per cent accurate and may scare parents into ...

Pennsylvania researchers have discovered that a sizable percentage of patients potentially at risk for cancer would turn down testing to ...

A medical breakthrough by Australian scientists has shown how sheets of stem cells grown on contact lenses can repair damaged ...

Stem cell research is very dynamic with research trends, focus, and approaches evolving rapidly - but increased government restrictions on ...

A provision in a U.S. House bill would allow farmers to grow genetically modified crops while court battles are under ...

The Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the only genetically altered corn approved by regulators and undergoing field trials in ...

Occasionally you just have to stop and ask yourself what the public has against scientific progress; especially when it comes ...

An immune-system receptor plays an unexpected but crucially important role in keeping stem cells from differentiating and in helping blood ...

The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) says consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods will not pose any threat to human ...

It is a shibboleth of family life – that every individual is the product of their genes and environment, the ...

The makers of the first corn genetically modified to be tolerant of drought said they are confident it will prove ...

New tests for genetic screening of unborn babies will not be 100 per cent accurate and may scare parents into ...

Japanese researchers have created a functioning human liver from stemcells, a report said Friday, raising hopes for the manufacture of ...

Though as much as 99 percent of all Alzheimer’s cases are not a result of a known genetic mutation, researchers ...