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Genetically engineered tomatoes squashed?
After using modern techniques to develop and test tomatoes for desired qualities, researchers will turn to more conventional hybrid breeding ...
Golden rice and GMOs: The best solutions to world hunger?
Earlier in the week I wrote an article about genetically engineered food, and why I thought it was a bad idea ...
Science and GMOs are not the bad guys here
Blogger Beth Hoffman, who is like me a Forbes contributor, tells us in a garbled polemic against genetically modified (GM) foods that, ...
Why genetically modifying food is a bad idea
Recently the debate over genetically modified (GMO) foods has heated up again. In just the past few weeks, articles about ...
Is it time for scientist activism against GMO fear-mongering?
In areas of southeast Asia and Africa, vitamin A deficiency is common and can cause blindness. The World Health Organization estimates that ...
Believe it or not, GM was once considered Green tech
Until the German Green Party's politics got involved, GM was seen as a revolutionary success among of the "Green" movement ...
Genetic engineering produces a genuine (regulation) monstrosity
Activists have warned for decades that genetic engineering would create some sort of monstrosity like Dr. Frankenstein’s creature. It turns out ...
Programming language based on the human brain
IBM has developed a new programming architecture based on the language of the human brain, taking us one step closer ...
NYTimes’ “Autism’s Unexpected Link to Cancer Gene”: an old story, made murky
It’s not news that disrupting a gene for tumor-suppressing proteins can result in non-cancer effects on many body systems, including ...
“Organic” is one of the most confusing labels, report says
The label “organic” is one of the most confusing for consumers, says a new report by the Natural Foods Merchandiser ...
You can put lipstick on a pig (GE feeding study), but it still stinks
The following is an edited excerpt. The tiny cadre of anti-biotechnology activists who reside in the scientific community are perverting ...
Deep pockets and enablers behind anti-GM crop destroyers
Within hours of the FBI news release about the recent Oregon sugar beet vandalism, activists and promoters of “natural” products ...
Mark Lynas: From GMO hater to supporter
While U.S. consumers are becoming increasingly more interested in where their food comes from and what goes into it, Europeans ...
Genetically modified RNA scare seems bogus
A molecule as unstable as RNA likely couldn't even make it past our digestive system ...
Fear and loathing of GE at the Los Angeles Times
The following is an edited excerpt. There’s plenty of inaccurate, misleading and ungrammatical information on the Internet, of course, but ...
Alleged danger of GE not looking very real
The following is an edited excerpt. Once upon a time, a food writer triggered a storm of scientific scorn when ...
No, this is not how the human face might look in 100,000 years
One artist’s vision of what humanity will look like in 100,000 years includes huge eyes and foreheads. Apparently, we’re all ...
Will genetically engineered animals bring home the bacon?
The following is an edited excerpt. The critics of biotechnology who predicted the eventual emergence of a fearsome Dr. Frankenstein's ...
Centenarian genetics: The search for longevity-enhancing biotech
People who live past age 100 develop diseases at much later ages than the rest of us. Scientists are working ...
Debunking ‘the big lie’ about genetically engineered crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Anti-GM activists will be out in full force on Saturday (25 May) for the ...
The curious case of human gene patents
The following is an excerpt. Critics who think the U.S. Patent Office has been too liberal in awarding protection for ...
Viable human embryonic stem cells created by cloning
The following is an excerpt of a longer story. A paper in this week’s Cell describes how a team in Oregon finally ...
Exposing the tyranny of the food fascists
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. Like backseat ...
New stem cell book highlights the patient perspective
The following is an excerpt. The Healing Cell, just out from Hachette Press, deals with promising stem cell therapies from the ...
Harvard professor re-identifies anonymous volunteers in DNA study
The following is an excerpt. From the onset, the Personal Genome Project, set up by Harvard Medical School Professor of ...
What if they treated gene patents like nautical charts?
The following is an excerpt. A human gene is nothing more than a sequence of A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s ...
Here we go again? Mandatory biotech food labeling initiative moves forward in Washington (state)
The following is an excerpt. Not even a year after fighting a bruising and costly battle over the “California Right ...
A rebuttal to Mark Bittman’s NYT op-ed
Former FDA official Henry Miller thoroughly debunks an anti-GMO rant in the New York Times ...
