Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Brüstle v. Greenpeace, decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union, or CJEU, on October 18, 2011, changes ...

I was a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee when the agency approved production of genetically modified foods in ...

Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent ...

Our genes control many aspects of who we are -- from the color of our hair to our vulnerability to ...

RESEARCHERS are planning the first genetic study to help determine which patients are at risk of nausea and vomiting after ...

Sorghum is a staple food crop that feeds millions of people in Africa and Asia. It is a popular breakfast ...

The field of study called population genetics has played a critical role in the development of modern biology, helping unite ...

An article from the Harvard Business School proposes a theory about what factors influence how genetically modified crops are approved ...

Nagpur is emerging as a big destination for companies associated with 'cord blood banking' or CBB. In the last few ...

Sir, – It’s not often these days that one finds oneself in agreement with virtually anything said by a government ...

Steve Marsh, of Kojonup in Western Australia, lost his organic certification for almost 70 per cent of his 478ha farm ...

Human teeth can be engineered to regenerate, thanks to the world’s most poisonous fish. British scientists have been studying the ...

No farmer in their right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January ...

Ten years after it was introduced to India, genetically modified cotton is not living up to its promise. It is ...

Last month, when I summarized the views of Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at Harvard, on ...

There’s more to your DNA than your DNA. We are now becoming aware of the epigenome. While DNA controls you, ...

A new technology could help to monitor and track genetically modified crops in the food processing chain, say researchers ...

Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a ...

New York University biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while ...

Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University helps answer some long-standing questions ...

Scientists have successfully extended the lifespan of mice using gene therapy, a strategy never before employed to combat aging. The ...

Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point in the not-too-distant past ...

A solution to the ethical dilemma of using human embryonic stem cells to treat human diseases could be staring us ...

The late US law Professor Paul Miller reflected recently that Beethoven, Stephen Hawking and Elton John were examples of individuals ...

It is called epigenetics. This is where at the microscopic level the genes should function normal but something in the ...

It may be possible to use "stem cell shielding" to protect the body from the damaging effects of chemotherapy, early ...

Genetic testing has confirmed that an animal fatally shot last month by a hunter in northern New Brunswick was a ...