Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

The cultivation of genetically modified (BACILLUS Thuringiensis) BT-2 cotton has increased substantially in East Godavari district this current season as ...

The Occupy movement will target what Cordaro called “the corporate ownership of the World Food Prize, especially its dominance by ...

It’s not often we get to use the words “good news” and “farm bill” in the same sentence, but even ...

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have uncovered a link between two genes which shows how stem cells could ...

Genetic tests that analyze fetal DNA from a pregnant woman's blood are arriving in a rush, but the commercialization of ...

Researchers in Japan who evaluated the risks and efficacy of transplanting two varieties of stem cells into mouse cochlea have ...

There is a lot of reasonable debate about the safety of changing the genetic makeup of things we eat, but ...

Chinese scientists have developed and unveiled a genetically modified cow whose milk they claim is healthier, triggering fresh alarm over ...

The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria protein in plants have not harmed monarch butterflies, honey bees, rats or shown up in ...

Forget patches: gene therapy could suppress cigarette cravings by preventing the brain from receiving nicotine. The treatment is effective in ...

Today a new revolution is knocking at Africa's door-agricultural biotechnology. It promises to do for agriculture what mobile technology has ...

In a new study, researchers have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, thereby paving the way for a ...

For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patients' fibroblast cells (common cells found in connective tissue) into stem ...

Since biotechnology-derived crops were introduced in 1996, they have been adopted at an unprecedented rate, according to the 2011 annual ...

"Without question, man's knowledge of man is undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo. In many ways personalized medicine is already ...

In a bid to eradicate pesticides from farming in India, the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) has started ...

In the brains of humans and non-human primates, over 100 billion nerve cells build up complicated neural circuits and produce ...

“The statistical correlation between the facial expressions of sighted and blind individuals was almost perfect,” Matsumoto said. “This suggests something ...

While the country breathlessly waits for the Supreme Court to decide on Obamacare, there is another court battle to keep ...

The future of GM crops in Britain will be a key subject for discussion during a meeting between government ministers ...

In just a few years, you might be able to grow your own replacement bones from stem cells ...

When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, talk about ...

The European Commission is contributing more than €5 million (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty ...

(Nasdaq:HBIO), a life sciences tools company, says the first two successful stem cells laryngotracheal transplants have been completed in Russia, ...

Environmental activists scare the world’s population against biotechnology based on fiction, said Patrick Moore, Ph.D., a founder of Greenpeace and ...

Britain must place a renewed focus on agricultural research including GM projects, or risk falling behind other countries like Brazil, ...

THE CREATION of a single Government-funded body to oversee the retention of human tissue samples has moved a step closer ...