Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Italy’s ban on cellular meat: Protecting tradition or blocking innovation?
In December 2023, Italy passed Law 172/2023, making it illegal to produce, sell, or distribute cultivated meat. Agriculture Minister Francesco ...
Will the U.S. lose a generation of young scientists as research projects are gutted
[Y]oung scientists represents the future of American science: the next innovators, mentors, and developers of lifesaving treatments. These cancellations were framed ...
In the developing world, smallholder farms are key to climate resilient, sustainable agriculture
Smallholder farmers are integral to sustainable agriculture, contributing to climate mitigation through soil carbon sequestration, methane reduction, and agroforestry. Techniques ...
COVID wet market nature origin theory gets a boost: The genetic trail of coronavirus origins
In a study published on [May 7, 2025], a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 ...
Severe cases of autism on the rise? Another study contradicts RFK, Jr. claim
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the government’s new autism findings, he painted a grim ...
Food insecurity crisis intensifies: Almost 300 million people globally face hunger and malnutrition.
In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger—an increase of almost 14 million people ...
90% of new food and beverage products fail. AI is improving the odds
Recent data highlights a striking reality: 90% of new food and beverage products fail. Why? Lengthy product development cycles, outdated consumer ...
Georgia’s heartbeat law: Hospital says they must keep brain-dead woman on life support until the birth of the fetus
With [the mother's] due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies ...
Bayer ponders bankruptcy option in renewed push to resolve 60,000 pending glyphosate suits
Bayer is making another push to resolve lawsuits linking the popular weedkiller Roundup to cancer, while exploring a bankruptcy filing ...
AI can play a crucial role in making agrifood more resilient but could lead to increased carbon emissions
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are offering powerful tools to transform the agrifood system, and new research ...
RFK, Jr.’s FDA banning prescription cavity-preventing fluoride supplements used mostly by low income children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has begun the process to eliminate fluoride drops and tablets prescribed to children to ...
Nebraska and Montana ban lab grown, cell-based meat
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced on [May 13] that he signed House Bill 401 into law. The legislation banned the ...
‘No more dudes in dresses’: Pentagon implementing Defense Secretary Hegseth’s directive to purge 1,000 transgender military
The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and ...
Public support for CRISPR gene edited food surges in the UK
The UK is backing emerging innovation to protect the future of our food supply, with 69% of UK adults strongly ...
Repairing a broken code of life: In CRISPR breakthrough, rewriting the misspelling of infant’s DNA cures him of rare liver disease
In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized ...
Viewpoint: Screening embryos for diseases—slippery slope and the advantages of being rich
[D]espite [Noor] Siddiqui’s efforts to cast herself as a modern-day Jonas Salk, [Orchid Health genetic screening services are] not a ...
$500 million universal flu vaccine: Moonshot-like project proposes to use 50-year old technology that likely won’t work
Dubbed Generation Gold Standard, the project is aimed at creating a flu shot that doesn't have to be updated every ...
Viewpoint: Agricultural science shouldn’t be partisan but that’s the way we are trending
Science itself is not partisan. It is based on data, evidence, testing and peer review. It does not take sides ...
Kenyan government announces action plan to counter activist GMO misinformation
The government has pledged to strengthen public education and combat widespread misinformation around genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as it launched the ...
South Korea’s Haenyeo—Did these legendary women evolve to dive?
An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and ...
Disrupt the global food supply? Trump officials dubious about RFK, Jr.—MAHA plan to ban crop chemicals
A bid by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to label pesticides as a potential cause of U.S. health woes ...
Why and where cancer rates are climbing in younger adults while overall cancer rates decline
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have completed a comprehensive analysis of cancer statistics for different age groups ...
Eating a healthy diet delays puberty in teenage girls
Girls who grow up eating a healthier diet than their peers may be less likely to get their first menstrual ...
CRISPR chaos: Court ruling reignites patent war, could upend who is credited with the breakthrough
[T]he US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier will get another chance ...
CRISPR pig joins a shortlist of genetically modified animals approved by the FDA for human consumption
Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus ...
Bizarre but typical: RFK, Jr. takes his grandchildren swimming in sewage and feces filled creek—and brags about it
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has revealed that he went swimming with his children in a Washington ...
‘It’s harder to get off antidepressants than heroin’: RFK. Jr.’s exaggerates but SSRI’s are not risk free
The medical community has reacted with alarm to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s claim that his family members have had ...
