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Selling marijuana like wine: ‘Flavor’ genes identified that could lead to tastier strains
Scientists at the University of British Columbia have reportedly identified those parts of the cannabis genome which determine flavor, potentially paving ...
Non-GMO movement plagued by ‘rampant sexism’, critic says
It’s no secret that [moms are] among the most coveted demographics of the non-GMO marketing machine. Jeffrey Smith, one of ...
Is your sperm being zapped by chemicals in the environment?
Nick Kristof is an accomplished reporter...[but] when he ventures into issues relating to environmental exposures and their putative health effects, ...
Is genetic testing devolving into ‘hucksterism’?
[Editor's note: David Shaymitz is the chief medical officer of DNAnexus, a genetic data management company.] The ready availability of ...
Nestlé bucks trend, won’t add GMO labels despite activist pressure
The organic faction is back at it with its bullying tactics. This time, they're going after Nestlé. In a February ...
Decoding death: Craig Venter’s quest to uncover secret to immortality in our DNA
Craig Venter, the man in the late 1990s who, frustrated by the slow progress of the government-funded Human Genome Project, ...
5 non-GMO ‘frankenfoods’ that can carry organic label
One of the most common food myths of our time is that GMOs are “frankenfoods” while heirloom or organic varieties ...
1 cigarette ‘more carcinogenic and toxic’ than a spoonful of glyphosate pesticide
[Editor's note: Matan Shelomi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Entomology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...
GOP Congress could deploy long-standing law to repeal Obama-era FDA GMO animal biotech policies
A game-changer for regulatory reform, [the Congressional Review Act] could be a significant stimulus to job creation and economic growth ...
Non-GMO? Organic? Natural? Do food ‘buzzwords’ help consumers make healthy choices?
Picture the cereal aisle (and marvel at the fact that there is an aisle just for cereal). Next, think of ...
Were ‘activist scientists’ behind European Union neonicotinoids ban?
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist who was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology.] ...
Here’s the truth about the non-browning Arctic Apple
[Editor's note: The story is a response to a February 2, 2016, post on STAT news written by a campaigner with ...
2016 was not a good year for crop biotechnology and science
Editor's note: The piece below was written by Wayne Parrot, professor of crop science at the University of Georgia, and Val ...
Science moms: Girl Scouts ‘cave’ to anti-science protests by introducing non-GMO cookie
… The campaign to pressure the GSUSA into dropping ingredients sourced from plants engineered with modern molecular techniques, better known ...
Hunt’s slammed for ‘No GMOs in sight’ tomato marketing ploy
“No matter how far afield you look, you won’t find a single genetically modified tomato among our vines,” Hunt’s, the ...
Will Trump Administration reduce ‘unnecessary’ agricultural biotechnology regulations?
During the campaign, President-elect Trump questioned whether certain regulations were sensible, and in its transition to power the new administration ...
New York Times unresponsive to scientists’ criticism of Danny Hakim’s error-filled article on GMO ‘failures’
The New York Times has conducted a decades-long vendetta against the ... techniques of genetic engineering applied to agriculture. Bias and inaccuracy ...
Mystery of meteors: Building blocks of life remain elusive
Three of the five nucleobases --- molecular subcomponents of information-bearing nucleotides which make up our genetic code --- likely came ...
Anti-GMO groups exploiting liberal fear of President-elect Trump
“It’s time to fight,” reads the subject line of an email from the organic-funded Just Label It campaign.... The fight? ...
If nutrition is focus, GMO and organic foods can both deliver results
Passionate views on GMO, conventional and organic farming dominate food-related news and social media. But I rarely see nutrition mentioned, ...
Alternative medicine, supplement promoters selling pseudo-science ‘genetic-based’ treatments
Alternative practitioners are now forging highly profitable businesses based on patients coming to them with raw genetic data provided by ...
Millennials’ demand for organics ripples through supply chain
Co-packers should be concerned, along with distributors, farmers and even, heck, grain elevator operators. Their worlds are incrementally turning upside ...
Bioethicists should “get out of the way” of groundbreaking germline-altering research
As psychiatrist and American Enterprise Institute scholar Dr. Sally Satel has written, there are indeed complex and difficult questions in ...
Rift between realists and idealists in food movement threatens to undermine it
When acclaimed food reform writer, Michael Pollan, recently published a lengthy article critical of the Obama food reform legacy, he exposed a ...
Conflating GMOs with Monsanto stifles development of new, innovative biotech crops from smaller companies
Conflating “GMOs” with Monsanto creates a crude narrative and regulatory quagmire that stifles innovation, discouraging smaller entities from developing and ...
Voice of the Farmers event counterpoint to faux Monsanto tribunal
The [activist-organized, mock 'Monsanto Tribunal'] isn’t about Monsanto at all, but about stifling tools like genetic engineering, and agricultural chemicals ...
No, you did not inherit your intelligence from your mother’s genes
The premise of [a post from Second Nexus is] that science has traced “intelligence genes” to the X chromosome and ...
‘Advocacy research’ tying neonicotinoids to bee deaths debunked, but still effective propaganda
...[A] worrisome... trend is the increasing frequency of articles containing flawed “advocacy research” that is actually designed to give a false result. This ...
