ven before Jurassic Park became a staple of pop culture in the early 1990s, geneticists have been on the hunt to find preserved dinosaur DNA. With a quick search online, you’ll find a handful of studies published in peer-reviewed journals claiming to have recovered DNA from dinosaur fossils or other preserved prehistoric specimens. The latest … Read more

On the hunt for plant-produced vaccines.

n 16th century China, physicians found that inoculating healthy individuals with pus or dried scabs from someone infected with smallpox, a process known as variolation, usually led to a less severe illness. Physician and biologist Edward Jenner took the idea of variolation one step further in 1796, observing that humans could be vaccinated against diseases … Read more

An important study brings us one step closer to cultivating crops in previously infertile soil.

Media references to Jurassic Park and ‘mutant hybrid insects’ are based on a thorough misunderstanding of this effective technology.