Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Tanzania: Call for review of GMO rules
SOME stakeholders in the cotton industry have demanded the strict liability clause in bio-safety regulatory framework to be removed to ...
Grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, ...
Molecular genetics helps ‘undress’ mutton
Under the supervision of Murdoch agricultural scientist Professor David Pethick, he borrowed an idea from molecular genetics to test the ...
GM food worm its way penetrating Vietnamese market
In April 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) informed that there had been no final experiment result ...
Africa: Global and national resistance to GMOs
Our focus in this presentation is on modern biotechnology in crops and animal species. Traditional biotechnology is as old as ...
Scientists now raise fears on safety of GMOs
Dr Lubano Kizito of the Kenya Medical Research Institute said the human health is crucial and thus safety issues that ...
What is life? Follow the bits
The debate over the definition of life is getting messier and messier, but one of the pioneers on the biochemical ...
Will Gattaca come true?
Noninvasive, early fetal tests for sex, paternity and chromosomal conditions will change pregnancy dramatically- and raise tricky ethical questions.A scientist ...
Tiny ancient animal club gains a member: Mini-mammoth
There's a new addition to the "tiny ancient animals I'd like to have as a pet" list: a mini-mammoth that ...
Genetic study traces horse domestication to Russia
A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most ...
Enzyme corrects more than one million faults in DNA replication
Scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) at the University of Edinburgh have ...
Test-tube’ babies have more birth defects?
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments ...
Back from the dead: Couple who paid $155,000 to CLONE their dog
One couple couldn't bare to live without their beloved yellow Labrador, so when he died of cancer they put a ...
Can blood test predict breast cancer risk?
A blood test that spots changes in a specific gene could reveal a woman's risk for breast cancer years before ...
Importance of global food supply and security
The importance of a secure global food supply extends beyond the threat of hunger and malnutrition into wider security concerns, ...
Newborns with missing spleen – Genetic link identified
A study published online in the May 3 edition of Developmental Cell reveals that researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical ...
Canadian geneticist discovers secret behind the blond-haired Solomon Islanders
The discovery of a gene mutation that gives some Soloman Islanders platinum blond hair has important implications for medicine and ...
Breaking the genome bottleneck
The genomic data generated from next-generation sequencing machines doesn't amount to much more than alphabet soup if it's not subjected ...
Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development
Vaccines remain the best line of defense against deadly pathogens and now Kathryn Sykes and Stephen Johnston, researchers at Arizona ...
Should GMOs in food products be labeled?
Consumers may not know exactly what genetically modified food is, but chances are they’re eating it. A local grocer is ...
Misplaced protest against GMO
Plant scientists at Rothamsted Research, a complex of buildings and fields in Hertfordshire, UK, that prides itself on being the ...
Opinions on genetic engineering that aren’t worth a bean
Just in time for Earth Day in April, a Stanford Magazine article about the farming of soybeans offered a rich ...
Genetic literacy poor in primary care
Despite early predictions of huge public demand for direct-to-consumer genetic testing, it’s safe to say personal genetic data isn’t clogging ...
Researcher says stem cell work speeds healing process
One day, a serious fracture might not take months to heal. Instead, with the injection of a putty made of ...
Cloning teeth! Medicine’s next big thing?
Nearly 70 percent of adults age 35 to 44 have lost at least one permanent tooth, and by age 74, ...
Cleveland Clinic to open personalized medicine center
Cleveland Clinic has become the latest to jump into the hot field of personalized medicine, announcing plans to open a ...
Kenya to get 249 million GMO technology boost
KENYA is set to benefit from a US $ 3 million grant seeking to enhance knowledge sharing and awareness on ...
