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Back to the vax — Is the measles surge testing MAHA’s vaccine rejectionism?
Measles has been spreading in the US, reaching infection levels not seen in decades .... This year, the Centers for ...
‘You only need to put a few knicks in the brain’: FDA is bizarrely demanding fake brain surgery to assess Huntington’s disease therapy
Katie Jackson desperately wants a new treatment for Huntington’s disease. Her husband died from the devastating brain disorder. And because ...
Anti-vaccine hysteria is leading to bleeding deaths in babies
For nearly 65 years, babies in the US have received a dose of vitamin K within hours of their birth ...
RFK, Jr. endorses expedited approvals for gene editing therapy
A top United States regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to ...
Setting aside $18 billion: As glyphosate cancer litigation persists, Bayer places its survival bet on SCOTUS and federal legal protection
Bayer … notes that regulators in countries from the US to Japan to New Zealand have recently reaffirmed that glyphosate-based ...
‘‘It could determine the future of the world’: Putin morphs from ethical opponent of gene editing humans to support for creating CRISPR-edited soldiers “without fear, without compassion, without regret or even pain.” It could happen soon
While known experiments with Crispr—to improve crops, modify malaria-carrying mosquitoes, treat cancer—are constantly expanding, no government has approved wielding the tool to ...
Latest Trump and RFK, Jr. health misinformation rabbit hole: No, aluminum in vaccines is not dangerous or causally linked to autism
“We want no aluminum in the vaccine,” Trump said during the White House press conference, surprising even some ardent anti-vaccine ...
India negotiating removing block on importing US GMO grains to forge new trade deal
In a world where an ever-growing portion of grains is grown from genetically modified seeds, India has sat on the ...
CRISPR pitless cherries are on the horizon
Seedless fruit is easy to take for granted, until you find yourself eating grapes with crunchy bits and watermelons that ...
Florida E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk
Raw milk has been linked to an ongoing E. coli and campylobacter outbreak in Florida that has already sickened 21 ...
‘Designer baby’ startup: Controversal germline editing company Bootstrap Bio raising money for germline gene editing launch
A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sending science backward’—MAGA fuels a culture war against life-saving mRNA vaccines
US health agency leadership and policymakers seem intent on undermining trust in mRNA, the technology that saved millions of lives ...
Switzerland poised to break from its anti-GMO past, edges closer to deregulating gene edited crops to increase crop yields
Switzerland is considering a change of its rules to allow gene editing, reflecting a broader shift across Europe aimed at ...
‘Baby Project’ scandal: Disgraced tycoon Greg Lindberg and fertility clinics embroiled in controversy
At his peak, [Greg] Lindberg controlled several insurance companies and had a net worth of more than $1 billion. Over ...
Underground fertility markets operate across international borders often evading regulation
Every 15 seconds or so, a batch of human eggs is extracted from a woman somewhere on the planet. Most ...
Teen and tween rush: Now you and your kids can both get a sugar fix at Starbucks
Starbucks said it doesn’t share what percentage of its sales are attributable to customers under 18, but the menu is ...
Climate-adaptive crops open door to a ‘new era of gene-edited food’
Genetic engineering remains extremely contentious in Europe. This matters because resistance to food altered by biotechnology is holding back development ...
Viewpoint: ‘Resistance to food altered by biotechnology holds back development of new crops that may improve our health and help us adapt to climate change’
Genetic engineering remains extremely contentious in Europe. This matters because resistance to food altered by biotechnology is holding back development ...
Wegovy users aren’t just eating less — they’re drinking and smoking less too
The anecdotes are increasingly impossible to ignore: Many people taking the new obesity drugs, whether Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy or Eli ...
Number of illnesses that weight loss drug Wegovy likely could treat are growing
Research is accumulating showing that GLP-1s can protect against cardiovascular problems — even when weight-loss is minimal ...
Companies race to achieve pig kidney transplants. Who will be first to convince the world their technologies are safest?
Xenotransplantation, the futuristic sounding field of animal-to-human organ transplants, is suddenly a lot closer to reality. The first two gene-edited ...
‘Miracle’ sickle cell cure limits ability to have children: What are the options?
When Celenise Mahmood first learned about two new gene therapies that could cure sickle cell disease, she felt a wave ...
CRISPR is cheap, effective and easy to use. That’s why human germline editing scares even some proponents
Crispr technology is based on a rudimentary immune system that Japanese scientists first noticed in bacteria three decades ago ...
‘Game changing results’: Weight-loss drug Wegovy could cut heart attacks and deaths due to cardiovascular disease
Study that supports the use of Wegovy, to cut heart attacks and deaths in obesity patients with a history of ...
China is the world’s top importer of soy and corn. Could dozens of recently-approved GMO varieties help boost production and curb imports?
China has approved dozens of genetically modified corn and soybean seed varieties for planting, in a breakthrough move that could ...
The 2020-2022 plant-based meat gold rush is over. What’s next?
Sales of vegan burgers, nuggets or eggs have struggled as rampant food inflation and the cost-of-living crisis force consumers to cut back ...
Zombie viruses: Record warming in the Arctic could revive ancient outbreaks
With the planet already 1.2C warmer than pre-industrial times, scientists are predicting the Arctic could be ice-free in summers by 2030s ...
He Jiankui’s new gene editing experiment: China’s CRISPR baby scientist aims to prevent Alzheimer’s with similar — but safer — experiment
The Chinese scientist who was at the center of global condemnation for altering babies’ genes wants to use a similar ...
