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Book review: ‘The Lives of Bees’ offers 14 tips to help keep honeybees healthy and pollinating our crops

Forbes | 
What were the lives of wild honey bees like before humans began intensively managing them and moving them all over ...
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Meet the new generation of young biotech entrepreneurs

Ellie Kincaid, Michela Tindera | Forbes | 
Crispr had no obvious relevance to human health when it was first described in 1987, but [Jennifer] Doudna, who won ...
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Can biohacking transform our homes into ‘hospitals of the future’?

Francesco Corea | Forbes | 
The need of having a higher quality of care and more control and transparency over individual healthcare are affecting the ...
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Virtual reality helps autistic children tackle phobias

Sol Rogers | Forbes | 
One tool that is being embraced by therapists, counselors, teachers, parents and their children to help those with autism to better ...
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Viewpoint: DNA data ‘rat race’ bringing down costs of precision medicine but perils of security risks escalate

Jayshree Pandya | Forbes | 
It is said that this is the best of times for direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies, human disease ...
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‘Terrible science’: Archaeological geneticists blast study that used DNA to identify Jack the Ripper

Kristina Killgrove | Forbes | 
News media was buzzing [March 18] with a claim that scientists had finally figured out the real identity of the ...
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Viewpoint: Call for moratorium on heritable gene editing reminds us of gene therapy’s troubled early days

Greg Licholai | Forbes | 
A group of influential scientists have urged that clinical use of CRISPR be put on hold in the wake of ...
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Glyphosate meta-analysis appeared to raise legitimate concerns that Monsanto’s Roundup may cause cancer, then Genetic Literacy Project pointed out study’s fatal flaws

Steven Salzberg | Forbes | 
In the new study, by a group of scientists from UC Berkeley, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the University of ...
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Defending 23andMe’s DNA health test: ‘You will learn something’ of value

Steven Salzberg | Forbes | 
The New York Times decided to publish an editorial ... warning people to "be careful about 23andMe's Health Test." What are they ...
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Viewpoint: Green New Deal should invest in precision agriculture

Austin Frerick | Forbes | 
When policymakers talk about “green jobs,” they tend to default to examples in solar power, wind and other sources of ...
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4 expanding technologies that could help boost crop yields and preserve the environment

Donald Marvin | Forbes | 
The scope of [agricultural] advances during the past three years is nothing short of astonishing. Today’s growers now have at ...
Could blockchain-based product labels help build consumer trust in our food system?

Could blockchain-based product labels help build consumer trust in our food system?

Samantha Radocchia | Forbes | 
The labeling of our food is a notoriously murky business. A healthy 82% of Americans say they’ve felt tricked by nutrition labels ...
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Bacon—made of mushrooms? New plant-based meat on the horizon

Amy Feldman | Forbes | 
Eben Bayer, cofounder and CEO of Ecovative, built his company making things out of mycelium, the root structure of a mushroom. He's ...
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Here’s what DNA testing companies are doing with all that genetic data

Nicole Martin | Forbes | 
In the past couple of years, genetic-testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe have become popular for finding out family history ...
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How AI can make gene editing ‘more accurate, cheaper and easier’

Bernard Marr | Forbes | 
One of the most exciting prospects about gene technology is the development of precision or personalized medicine. The field, which ...
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How The Non-GMO Project Is Adapting To A Gene-Edited World

Jenny Splitter | Forbes | 
the Non-GMO Project is a non-profit and non-governmental certifying organization created by the owners of two natural foods grocery stores ...
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Viewpoint: Why a Thanksgiving dinner using GMO ingredients is safer and healthier than an organic meal

John Tamny | Forbes | 
Thanksgiving is upon us, which means families across the U.S. will soon be enjoying the most mouth-watering of meals. This ...
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There are literally no more studies we can do to show glyphosate is safe, expert says

Geoffrey Kabat | Forbes | 
Several days ago I wrote a column about the wrong-headed claim that glyphosate is a carcinogen and the huge number of tort ...
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As genetic engineering evolves, are non-GMO food labels meaningful?

Jenny Splitter | Forbes | 
A group called the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has petitioned the [FDA] to prohibit use of the term “Non-GMO” on food .... [T]he ...
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Why people don’t trust artificial intelligence: It’s an ‘explainability’ problem

Jason Bloomberg | Forbes | 
Despite its promise, the growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is experiencing a variety of growing pains. In addition to ...
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Using gene editing to improve animal welfare may calm public’s fear of biotech

Jenny Splitter | Forbes | 
Since the first genetically modified tomato hit the U.S. market in 1994, consumers have been suspicious of scientific tinkering with ...
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Cannabis farming is fueling development of less toxic biopesticides for ‘mainstream’ agriculture

Janet Burns | Forbes | 
As legal cannabis farms take the spotlight, safer methods of pest control are also taking root in more 'mainstream' agriculture. ... Regulators point out ...
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Viewpoint: IARC’s defenders ignore cancer agency’s flawed research, conflicts of interest

Geoffrey Kabat | Forbes | 
I woke up .... to find an article by Neil Pearce, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ...
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Nigerian biotech startup introduces produce coating to combat malnutrition in Africa

Gemma Milne | Forbes | 
Nigerian biotech startup Coating+ ....  has created a transparent gelatinous coating that is sprayed onto fresh fruit and vegetables to prolong their shelf ...
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EU court ruling limiting gene editing ironically underscores safety of modified crops

Steven Salzberg | Forbes | 
A European Union court [July 25th] issued a new decision about GMOs. Disappointingly, this decision is likely to further confuse rather than ...
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Muscular dystrophy targeted with promising gene therapy

Matthew Herper | Forbes | 
An experimental gene therapy appeared to dramatically increase the production of a muscle-making protein in three young boys with Duchenne ...
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What Right to Try Act means for pharmaceutical and biotech companies

Martina Rozumberkova | Forbes | 
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies need to start preparing for the compliance and reporting requirements of a controversial new law. US ...
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DNA spit test for prostate cancer risk?

Victoria Forster | Forbes | 
A new DNA "spit test" for prostate cancer can identify men who have an increased risk of developing the disease ...
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