Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Recent scientific progress includes the mapping of the entire human genetic code, or genome, which was completed in 2003, and ...

Somebody please get Sen. Lisa Luddite Murkowski, R-Alaska, down off her high-flying Frankenfish. Enough with the pandering to Alaska commercial ...

By the time Dr. Spencer Misner had carved away the dead and diseased flesh from Bobby Rice’s right foot last ...

Genetics can help predict whether a person is likely to quit smoking on his or her own or need medication ...

In November, California voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing ingredients from ...

The government has maintained a ban on imports of GM crop seeds and GM products. The ban on products is ...

We hear a lot about Genetically Modified foods, or Genetically Modified Organisms - GMOs. But what exactly are they, and ...

Stem cells are mysterious. They are cells that make or replenish other cells. For example, when you donate blood, your ...

The much-anticipated opening of the Asian Regenerative Center for Cellular Therapies (ARCCT) will soon be taking stem cell therapy treatment ...

Genetic modification was supposed to be the ground-breaking science of the future. Its magic wand would feed the world and ...

Recently, it was announced that Republican voters will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot question in the July ...

In efforts to harmonise national biosafety regulations across Africa, the links between national regulatory authorities and key stakeholders must be ...

Popular resistance is boiling over on the GMO labeling issue, as the New York Times reported last week in a ...

Even scientists promoting Bt eggplant are against excessive and injudicious use of chemical pesticides. In a press release, Dr. Emiliana ...

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower ...

For nearly three years, Sundar (26) was waiting to be told that he could to regain control of his bladder ...

Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, ...

IF CROP biotechnology had not been available to the 15.4 million farmers using it in 2010, maintaining global food production ...

Scientists have identified a gene mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome, a rare disorder that causes stunted growth in babies, a ...

A new survey shows very few Americans cite biotechnology as an information need on food labels. Neither are most consumers ...

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital are extracting stem cells from the bone marrow of patients in need of hip repair ...

If the organisers of this weekend’s Take the Flour Back protest against the genetically modified wheat trial at Rothamsted in ...

Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” ...

Genes play a greater role in forming character traits - such as self-control, decision making or sociability - than was ...

Police kept hundreds of protesters at bay as they attempted to destroy a field where genetically modified wheat is being ...

Ashkenazi Jews have historically been an endogamous population. Marrying within the group remains important to many Jews because endogamy is ...

This is one of those agonised posts. I actually like the Green Party. My dad used to be, and may ...