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‘Public wasn’t consulted’? Kenya lifts decade-old ban on GMO crops challenged by Greenpeace, other activist groups
Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a ban on genetically modified foods, saying the public wasn’t ...
Fact check: Associated Press debunks social media claims that GMO corn can cause cancer
Social media users in recent days have falsely claimed genetically modified corn isn’t safe because it’s been found to cause ...
Can the viral spread of monkeypox be stopped in the US?
The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said July 28, despite rising case numbers and so ...
Will other sports follow swimming’s ban on transgender women?
Bans on transgender women in international swimming and rugby this week opened the door for track and field to consider ...
Federal appeals court rules EPA must reconsider safety of Bayer’s glyphosate weedkiller under Endangered Species Act
A federal appeals court on [June 17] rejected a Trump administration finding that the active ingredient in the weed killer ...
Crimes of the Future: David Cronenberg movie ‘imagines a world in which humans are evolving and mutating and growing new organs regularly’
Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg’s “ Crimes of the Future,” a ...
Pancreatic cancer cure? Reprogrammed cells tame disease that’s almost always fatal
In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged ...
‘Not persuasive’: FDA says Amylyx experimental drug for ALS Lou Gherig’s disease has ‘only modest’ effect
Federal health regulators issued a negative review [March 28] of a closely watched experimental drug for the debilitating illness known ...
CRISPR beef approved for sale after FDA finds no safety concerns
U.S. regulators on [March 7] cleared the way for the sale of beef from gene-edited cattle in coming years after ...
How DNA analysis uncovered the illegal elephant ivory trade
As few as three major criminal groups are responsible for smuggling the vast majority of elephant ivory tusks out of ...
End game for COVID? Predicting a quick end to the pandemic is premature, WHO chief warns
The World Health Organization’s director-general on [January 24] warned that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and ...
Fourth vaccine shows limited efficacy against Omicron
An Israeli hospital on [January 17] said preliminary research indicates a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine provides only limited ...
No morning espresso for the unvaccinated French, as new law sets sharp restrictions on restaurants, concerts and sporting events
France’s parliament approved a law [January 16] that will exclude unvaccinated people from all restaurants, sports arenas and other venues, ...
Olympics threat? Omicron and other COVID variants surge across China on cusp of Winter Games
Throughout the pandemic, authorities have been especially protective of Beijing since it is the seat of government and home to ...
When can we declare the COVID pandemic officially over?
Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be ...
Viewpoint: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has used COVID to make anti-vaccine disinformation mainstream
While many nonprofits and businesses have struggled during the pandemic, Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group has thrived. An investigation by The Associated ...
Understanding threats from COVID variants: Delta vs Omicron
As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are ...
Here’s what parents need to know about the COVID vaccine approved for children age 5-11
[November 2,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the final OK for youngsters age 5 to 11 to ...
Why aren’t COVID vaccine boosters being tweaked to curtail Delta and other dangerous variants?
More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way — but when it’s your turn, you’ll get an extra dose ...
NFL agrees to end race-based dementia testing for concussion settlements in $1 billion agreement
The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia ...
Anti-mask and vaccine rejectionist protests increasingly turn violent
Across the country, anti-vaccine and anti-mask demonstrations are taking scary and violent turns, and educators, medical professionals and public figures ...
$25 or less: As students head back to college, officials anticipate surge in fake COVID-19 vaccination cards
As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are ...
Pentagon poised to require COVID vaccinations for all military personnel
Members of the U.S. military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month under a plan laid ...
COVID fake news chronicles: Here’s a week of denial, distortion and misinformation from the dark side of social media
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these ...
Struggling with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the US, Mississippi health officials move to block social media misinformation
The Mississippi State Department of Health is now blocking comments on its Facebook posts that relate to COVID-19 because of ...
Eugenics reparations: California poised to pay up to $25,000 to people who were deemed ‘unfit to have children’ and sterilized
California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of people — some as ...
WHO proposes global registry and whistle-blowing mechanism to curb unethical and unsafe human gene editing abuses
The World Health Organization issued new recommendations [July 12] on human genome editing, calling for a global registry to track ...
‘Suicidal negationism’: Vatican launches global campaign to contain ‘myths and disinformation’ ciruclated by vaccine rejectionists
The Vatican’s bioethics academy and the World Medical Association on [July 2] called for an all-out effort to combat vaccine ...
