American Council on Science and Health
Night owl? Gene mutation may disrupt your body’s internal circadian clock
Millions of adults simply cannot go to sleep at the conventional time that most Americans do, [usually because] their internal ...
Depression gene? Gene link found for some with depressive symptoms
One in 10 people have a major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lives, which makes depression the most common mental illness ...
Did Cargill ruin its reputation with scientists, farmers with one #NonGMO tweet?
[Read the GLP profile of the Non-GMO project here.] Reputations are a funny thing. It takes years to build them ...
Love scent: Do humans use pheromones like other animals?
[A]necdotal evidence not withstanding, the scientific evidence for pheromones in humans is lacking. However, just because human pheromones have not been identified yet ...
Challenging Danny Hakim’s New York Times claim that Monsanto conspired to cover up glyphosate dangers
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is a microbiologist and a senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science ...
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide-in-foods list confuses risk and hazard
It's that time of the year when the Environmental Working Group produces its "Dirty Dozen List" - foods they believe ...
Sickle cell cure? Patient in complete remission following gene therapy
A number of recent headlines imply a recent case study just published...proves that gene therapy has cured sickle cell disease—a ...
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics on gene editing-How cautious can we afford to be?
There are a lot of voices getting into the mix of the debate on human genome editing, taking on the unenviable ...
“Getting Risk Right”: Geoffrey Kabat on health, risk and bad science
Why do things that are unlikely to harm us get the most attention? Dr. Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at ...
GM baker’s yeast could one day provide caffeine addicts with their next fix
The proliferation of coffee shops and energy drinks bears testimony to the fact that caffeine is in high demand. The ...
How Michael Pollan and the ‘foodie’ movement hurt small farmers
...[I]n some ways I am glad the "foodie" movement encouraged people to learn more about agriculture and how farmers provide the ...
Could scientists one day predict when people are at risk for brain trauma?
A small, yet promising, brain trauma study may someday lead to a time when doctors can forecast which patients who ...
American Council on Science and Health fact sheet in response to GMO, biotechnology critics
Recently, a concerned group of pro-science scholars contacted American Council on Science and Health because they wanted to counter the ...
How gene editing could stop insect-borne diseases like Zika
[W]hat if there were no mosquitoes? That is the idea behind the work of the company Oxitec. They have engineered ...
Why people feel nervous about gene drives–and why they shouldn’t
[A]lthough gene drives are opening up boundless possibilities in the world of genetic manipulation, real concerns lie in the unknown consequences of using ...
How gene drives work to permanently establish inheritable traits
In recent history, techniques such as PCR, large scale DNA sequencing and CRISPR-Cas9 fall into this category. More commonly than designing techniques from ...
Technology-doubting postmodern academics undermine public acceptance of science
The backlash against modern technology is widespread: Protests against genetic engineering, vaccines, "chemicals," modern agriculture, neuroscience, nuclear power (and almost any ...
IARC accused of selectively excluding ‘best’ scientists from glyphosate review
To scientists... what was really alarming was [the IARC] finding that the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the common product ...
‘March Against Monsanto’ now promoting anti-vaccine myths
The international protest "March Against Monsanto" (MAM) was never based on truth. The movement perpetuated myths about GMOs to demonize a company ...
With Bayer acquiring ‘Monsatan’, anti-GMO activists need new bogeyman
The German conglomerate Bayer has agreed to buy Monsanto ... Now the speculation has turned to American anti-science groups and how ...
Human hair may act as perfect support structure for growing nanoparticles
[Researchers have] demonstrated the use of human hair to grow catalytic nanoparticles (i.e., nanoparticles that are capable of carrying out chemical reactions). Why human hair? Nanoparticles, ...
Rachel Parent’s call to “teach the controversy” on GMOs echoes creationist attack on evolution
One of the latest contributions from [Huffington Post] . . .comes courtesy of self-described teenage "food safety activist" Rachel Parent. . . Her new article is ...
WHO’s IARC finds link between obesity and cancer
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)...released a summary [on August 25] of its report on the likelihood that excess ...
Losing genes may contribute to evolution just as much as gaining them
Traditionally, but incorrectly, an assumption exists that more complex organisms have larger genomes. As a result, biologists have tended to ...
Cancer survivors at high risk to develop obesity
A recent report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology presents some puzzling news — survivors of some types of cancer ...
Is Alzheimer’s blood test too good to be true?
Anyone who has ever visited a doctor’s office is familiar with the use of blood tests for the diagnosis of ...
Discovery of fire likely evolutionary boon for early humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How and when did ...
What happens when we die? Microbes in your ‘necrobiome’ take over body
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What happens when we ...
