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Harvard stem cell researchers challenge accusations of scientific misconduct
Two embattled and highly controversial stem cell researchers are suing the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School for ...
Tracking disease outbreaks through city’s sewer system
Disease prevention and mapmaking have been inextricably intertwined since 1854, when an English physician named John Snow plotted a cholera ...
Big Data shows value for farmers and industry
Who knew that the specific crossover of agriculture and big data was such a big deal? Everyone from Mother Jones ...
New app will let doctors review patients’ genome for cancer treatment
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest doctor in the world, and Blackberry Chief Executive John Chen made some news at Thursday’s Forbes ...
EPA accomplice in environmentalists’ war on neonics?
The Environmental Protection Agency is arguably the worst regulatory agency in the history of the world. But perhaps I understate ...
Repurposing genetics to search for ‘healthy’ genes
For most us, the scientific promise associated with understanding the human genome exists in uneasy tension with the quiet terror ...
Over-regulation of ag biotechnology squanders billions of dollars
The big agribusiness companies have achieved “regulatory capture” of government agencies–but not in the way that many people think. At ...
‘Miracle’ drug grows young girls limbs, costs of rare disease treatments pose challenges
Evie Elsaesser is 5 years old and she loves to run. And that is a medical miracle. When Evie was born, ...
Story of Darwinian evolution, as told by coffee plants
Charles Darwin did a fine job of showing why his theory of evolution explained the living world better than any ...
Cancer genome sequencing advancing personalized treatment
As the cost of DNA sequencing plummets, the possibility of testing all cancer patients’ tumor genomes is becoming a reality ...
What happens when 100 billion animals, over 18 years, eat GMOs?
Visit almost any anti-GMO website and you will find alarming headlines about the alleged dangers of GMO foods. They kill ...
Pipeline drugs for ovarian cancer will genetically match patients
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. You might not notice. Ovarian cancer shares the back-to-school educational National Health Observances slot with ...
Genome sequencing is getting cheaper, but might make healthcare more expensive
Cheaper genomic sequencing will give more patients and their physicians access to genetics in the healthcare system. But will that ...
Economics of genetic testing and medicine
The first time scientists sequenced a person’s entire genome, it took more than a decade and cost hundreds of millions ...
European ‘green groups’ block science reform over independent advisor backing of GE research
It is, perhaps, not the best of times for Greenpeace. Many of its supporters are angered at the revelation that ...
FDA to regulate genetic diagnostic tests, will affect cancer testing
The Food and Drug Administration unveiled plans to regulate thousands of diagnostic tests, including many coming from the exploding field ...
Better for Monsanto to surrender on labeling battle to win war over GMOs
An ABC news poll conducted last year found that 52 percent of people believe that GMOs are unsafe, and another 13 percent ...
Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva earns $40,000 per speech advocating policies harming poor
Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist who opposes modern agriculture and modern science — and well, modernity in general — is a popular ...
GMOs are not meaningful ‘category’ of foods or ingredients
Even after two decades of stunning scientific, humanitarian and financial successes and an admirable record of safety, the application of genetic engineering ...
Will synthetic biology suffer from same taboos as GMOs?
Science and industry are marching along with advances from this relatively new form of biological engineering, especially in the areas ...
Genetic and enviromental factors controling obesity epidemic are far from being decoded
A number of recent articles by scientists involved in research on obesity make a pointed case that, in spite of ...
GMO labels: When having more information can be bad
There are a variety of contexts where the government mandates the kind of information that companies must put on their ...
Mark Bittman’s tepid endorsement of GM overshadowed by shallow attacks on modern agriculture
Does New York Times food writer Mark Bittman get anything right? I doubt it. His recent commentary, “Leave Organic Out of ...
Pace of biomedical research not sustainable without funding changes
In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), four distinguished scientists make an urgent ...
Media reports on Vermont’s GMO labeling bill lacked science, framed emotionally
Even as the ultra-green Grist magazine has sought to give its fervent readers a more nuanced conversation about genetically modified ...
Norman Borlaug’s life was one of extraordinary paradox
Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder known as the Father of the Green Revolution, would have been 100 on March 25 ...
US regulators sitting on non-browning Arctic Apple approval
A Canadian company petitioned USDA regulators two years ago to “deregulate” – approve for unrestricted cultivation and marketing — a ...
General Mills turns to ‘Raja Of The Country Of World Peace’ to certify its costlier, non-GMO Cheerios
Recently, cereal makers General Mills and Post announced that they had reformulated their flagship brands (Cheerios and Grape Nuts, respectively) to avoid ...
