Better for Monsanto to surrender on labeling battle to win war over GMOs

Chunka Mui | Forbes | 
An ABC news poll conducted last year found that 52 percent of people believe that GMOs are unsafe, and another 13 percent ...
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Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva earns $40,000 per speech advocating policies harming poor

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist who opposes modern agriculture and modern science — and well, modernity in general — is a popular ...
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GMOs are not meaningful ‘category’ of foods or ingredients

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
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?

Meredith Salisbury | Forbes | 
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

Geoffrey Kabat | Forbes | 
A number of recent articles by scientists involved in research on obesity make a pointed case that, in spite of ...
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GMO labels: When having more information can be bad

Adam Ozimek | Forbes | 
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

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
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

Geoffrey Kabat | Forbes | 
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

Trevor Butterworth | Forbes | 
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

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
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

Henry Miller, Robert Wager | Forbes | 
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

Alan McHughen, Drew Kershen | Forbes | 
Recently, cereal makers General Mills and Post announced that they had reformulated their flagship brands (Cheerios and Grape Nuts, respectively) to avoid ...

China cracks down on DNA testing

Shu-Ching Jean Chen | Forbes | 
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February, ...

Market for DNA-sequencing-based Down Syndrome tests could top $6 billion

Matthew Herper | Forbes | 
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test ...

How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues

Emily Willingham | Forbes | 
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...

IVF is better, but not yet good enough

David Sable | Forbes | 
On the occasion of the CDC’s yearly release of IVF clinic success rates, I remind myself and my old colleagues ...
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How should Congress and the FDA respond to calls to label foods with GMOs?

Drew Kershen, Henry Miller | Forbes | 
According to Henry Miller, a physician and the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, and Drew ...

Could genetic modification help address California’s drought?

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
Here in California, where most of the state is experiencing “extreme” drought, 2013 was the driest year on record, and ...

This may be the kickoff year for genetically-altered humans

David DiSalvo | Forbes | 
By the middle of 2014, the possibility of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction ...
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Florida oranges may need rethink on use of GMOs, neonicotinoids to survive

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
Oranges and orange juice in the U.S. are under threat from a lethal, incurable bacterial infection known as "citrus greening," ...

Grist for the genetic engineering mill

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
A “what I’ve learned about GMOs” (“genetically modified organisms”) end-of-the-year column by Nathanael Johnson, Grist’s food writer, would ordinarily not warrant much attention ...
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2014: One step closer to genetically engineered athletes

Roger Groves | Forbes | 
We're closer than ever to having the science to support genetically engineering athletes. Are we responsible enough to handle it? ...

Are GMO-free Cheerios the first domino?

Richard Levick | Forbes | 
Activists are trumpeting General Mills’ decision to remove GMOs from Cheerios as a watershed moment. It is; but not for the reason ...

Project aims to create DNA barcodes for all species

Heather Clancy | Forbes | 
At first glance, the rather grandiose-sounding International Barcode of Life (IBOL) project seems an arcane scientific exercise. But the database ...
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Media missed important message when covering Angelina Jolie’s preventative mastectomy

David Kroll | Forbes | 
Angelina Jolie's preventative double mastectomy was one of the biggest genetics stories of 2013. But, new studies show, the media ...
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See no evil: Feinstein’s Frankenfood Folly

Henry Miller | Forbes | 
Activists opposed to modern techniques of genetic engineering have made it clear that they regard labeling as a first step ...

Schizophrenia and lower cognitive ability genetically linked

Robert Glatter | Forbes | 
Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research of Northshore LIJ recently discovered evidence of a genetic overlap between schizophrenia ...
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How much information about your genetic code is too much?

Brid-Aine Parnell | Forbes | 
The drastic reduction in cost, time and effort to sequence a person's genome is fueling new hopes for what scientists ...
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