Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Singapore firm reveals new GM biofuel crop
Singapore-based bioenergy company JOil has announced a new genetically modified strain of the jatropha plant which produces a higher quality ...
Africa’s First Sustainable Biofuel Plant Opens in Mozambique – Triple Pundit
Today marked the grand opening of the largest industrial park in Mozambique -and it’s got a sustainable edge to boot ...
Delivery system for gene therapy may help treat Arthritis
A DNA-covered submicroscopic bead used to deliver genes or drugs directly into cells to treat disease appears to have therapeutic ...
What rights should you have to your own DNA?
Things you own: Your clothes. Your car. Your body parts. Your DNA? A new bill under consideration by the the ...
Expert calls for expedition of the implementation of Biosafety Law in Ghana
Mr. Kwame Dei Asamoah-Okyere, Head of the Biosafety Unit of the Food and Drugs Board, on Wednesday called for a ...
Dairy producers gain access to new genetic testing services
Canada’s dairy producers have long recognized the benefits of identifying desired genetic traits in their herds. Now, with the creation ...
Does Transhumanism create new social relations?
After a near decade of following the spread of Transhumanism, I finally began a PhD project to find out some ...
U.S. Embassy partners to organize agricultural biotechnology workshop to promote awareness about GMOs
Funded by the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the workshop aims to create awareness of the bio-safety of ...
Central nervous system stem cells shed light on mechanism that controls cell division
Animals consist of many distinct cell types, all of which originate during development from a single cell: the fertilized egg ...
Swaziland moving towards GM crop farming
SEA in partnership with the University of Swaziland, took the media on an educational tour of genetically modified crops in ...
Scientists discover marker to identify, attack breast cancer stem cells
Breast cancer stem cells wear a cell surface protein that is part nametag and part bull's eye, identifying them as ...
GM products imported into Swaziland illegally
Despite the fact that Swaziland does not have a bio-safety law, genetically modified (GM) products are being imported into the ...
Food prices can go up if transgenic is refused
Considerations by one of the most important supermarket chains in the United Kingdom. Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, one of the ...
Video: Farmers and researchers discuss GMOs
Farmers and experts from around the world discuss their experiences with genetically modified food crops. View video discussion about biotechnology ...
New approach to ‘spell checking’ gene sequences
A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences ...
New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
Two modifications of cytosine, one of the four bases that make up DNA, look almost the same but mean different ...
New fetal DNA test detects Down syndrome
A simple blood test done on maternal serum early in the first trimester of pregnancy to determine if a baby ...
Healthy, risk-free biotech crops pushed
The Biotechnology Coalition of the Philippines (BCP) has reaffirmed its commitment to push for the adoption of biotech crops that ...
California considers DNA privacy law
California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing ...
Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations
Why do we see the colors we do? Some of it goes back to the types of color-absorbing pigments that ...
New drug shows we must overcome taboos about stem-cell research
I'll be the first to admit that stem-cell research, as we typically view it, troubles me in many ways. The ...
Video: Debate about GM crops reignites
The genetic modification of plants has been back in the news recently as scientists at Rothamsted Research conduct an open ...
Number of GM field trials in Europe in decline
The number of applications for experimental field trials with GM plants in Europe is steadily decreasing, new figures show. The ...
Man faces GM wheat break-in charges
A 50-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after an incident at a research centre where a trial of ...
Placental stem cells with key therapeutic properties can be harvested
Scientists at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) led by Vladimir Serikov, MD, PhD, and Frans Kuypers, PhD, report in ...
Stringent GMO regulatory system urged by anti-GM group
MANILA, Philippines -- International environment group Greenpeace urged a strict scrutiny of regulators of GMO (genetically-modified organism) products being introduced ...
Do genes really augur your future?
For some people, genes are key to predicting our future health. For others, genes as crystal balls are overhyped. Let's ...
