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Gene linked to suicide may predict risk, spark pre-emptive treatment
A gene tied to negative thoughts and impulses may lead to a blood test predicting suicide risk, according to researchers ...
Return of iconic American chestnut with help of GE calls for celebration
If the greatest living American were a tree, it would probably be the chestnut. In the first half of the 20th ...
Not just GM seeds: Monsanto innovates in traditional plant breeding
After a decade concentrating on seeds and genetically engineered “traited” crops, Monsanto is broadening its focus into traditional plant breeding, ...
Superchicken? Researchers turn to genetics to breed global warming tolerant fowls
For all the concern about how climate change may affect people in cities, people in cars, people and their flood ...
Is GM corn leading to overuse of insecticides as pests develop resistance?
Whether the return to pesticide use makes sense, or is simply spurred by a chemical industry marketing campaign, is at ...
‘Organic’ label does not guarantee healthier or more sustainable food
Buying organic food is an exercise in personal virtue: You pay more to consume food that's healthier for you and ...
Anti-GMO activists destroy rapeseed trial crops in France to protest mutagenesis, not realizing plants were not mutagenic
Protesters “completely” ruined trials across more than 1 hectare (2.47 acres) on a research plot in the southwestern Charente-Maritime region ...
Crops deliver less nutrition with more carbon dioxide in air, biofortification in GE crops can help
Feeding everybody in the world has always been a challenge. Feeding them well just got even tougher. Some of the ...
Big Food needs to get behind GMO labeling standard to prevent ‘hodgepodge’ of state bills
Tiny Vermont is on the verge of giving Big Food a huge headache. Late last month, the Vermont legislature passed ...
If you’re rich enough to freeze your eggs can you stop your biological clock?
There comes a point in every childless woman’s life, usually around 35, when the larger world becomes very interested in ...
Genetic engineering can save Mexico’s limes, but will we accept them?
If you are not a regular consumer of Mexican cuisine or gin and tonics, you may not have noticed that ...
DNA of cancer patients who exceptionally respond to drugs to become avenue for new treatments
The history of oncology is rife with reports of patients with advanced cancer who staged miraculous recoveries. Now scientists are ...
Why political partisans don’t like facts
To paraphrase an observation attributed to the late Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, people are entitled to their own opinions, not ...
US farmers continue to sow GM corn banned by China
Six months after China began rejecting shipments of a genetically modified corn developed by Switzerland's Syngenta AG, two of the ...
Does success come from your parents? New book supports genetic determinism
A new book supports the idea that socio-economic success is mostly a result of genetics. The idea that humans behavior ...
Judge rules Myriad can’t block other companies’ gene tests
Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN:US), the biggest maker of tests for hereditary risks of breast and ovarian cancer, fell the most ...
China’s leadership encourages GMO farming
As China’s leadership pushes more rapid urbanization to drive economic growth, the fate of the country’s farmlands is once more ...
New strains of bird flu up risk for pandemic
Genetic variations in the deadly bird flu virus circulating in China increase the potential for a pandemic strain to emerge, ...
Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
Analysis of baby DNA to demystify diseases
When Kira Walker was three weeks old, her pediatrician noticed a problem. She was frequently hungry and had dangerously low ...
Wal-Mart’s donkey/fox meat mix-up in China spurs DNA tests
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said it’s adding DNA tests of meat it sells in China after recalling donkey products from ...
Do patents help or hinder stem-cell research?
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease, ...
Field trials of GM oranges show promise in the fight against citrus-greening
Field trials of oranges genetically modified to contain a gene found in spinach are showing promise in resisting citrus greening—a ...
Setback for stem cell HIV “cure”
Two HIV-infected men who were thought to be clear of the virus after having stem cell transplants have had the ...
Failed promise of 23andMe
Since scientists first sequenced the human genome, we've dreamed of a clear genetic explanation for diseases and behaviors. It hasn't ...
FDA defends challenge to 23andMe
Alberto Gutierrez doesn’t want to look like the bad guy who’s getting between you and your DNA. “We don’t have ...
Rejection of genetically modified food opens doors for unregulated, irradiated crops
After Monsanto withdrew its applications to sell genetically modified seeds in the European Union last year, competing seed companies are ...
Anti-GMO activism forces countries to use unregulated chemical and radiation techniques to breed new varieties
(Summary) When countries reject genetically modified organisms because of unsubstantiated claims of health risks, agricultural companies in those countries are ...
