Genetic Literacy Project

In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the ...

Editor's Introduction: Readers who live outside of France have likely never heard of Le Monde environmental journalist Stéphane Foucart. He ...

At speaking engagements, I would often remind audiences of Bruce Ames’ quote on coffee and pesticides. In an attempt to ...

Eric Schmidt, a commissioner on the federal National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and formerly the CEO and Chairman of ...

Health influencers often declare that seed oils are driving an epidemic of non-communicable diseases. The science says otherwise. Can we ...

The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured ...

Embedded Bias: Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change? [Editors ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: science is political. Well, technically, how science is implemented is political, ...

Coffee gives us a great morning boost – and it is not just the caffeine! A recent study published in ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and ...

In early 2023, as news of H5N1 avian influenza (“bird flu”) spreading among dairy cows reached the White House, the ...

When dairy cows in Texas started falling ill last spring, alarm bells started to ring. Veterinarians had found feverish cows ...

A steady stream of studies and news stories has presented psychedelics as a game-changing therapy for depression. This may have ...

The climate continues to change, driven now by human actions. As it does, the warnings grow more pressing, the heat ...

Disinformation clouds the public understanding of science, especially technology in agriculture and medicine. So when a leading journal publishes false ...

Few topics in science, health and food elicit more fear than the phrase GMO, when everything we eat is technically ...

Do genetically modified (GM) pose a threat to the Africa’s plant biodiversity? ...

One of the long-standing tropes of climate politics in the United States is that as every presidential election comes into ...

Thomas Jefferson famously noted that "[T]he greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to ...

Therapeutic vaccines for some cancers have entered clinical trials. Do they represent the future of cancer treatment? Regulations, fearmongering campaigns ...

The recent storms that ravaged Florida and other states affected more than homes and infrastructure. Hurricane Helene inflicted significant damage ...

Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in ...

Florida has much going for it, but the state’s public health system doesn’t make the list. The opprobrium is largely ...

A comprehensive report on food waste published in [March 2024] by the United Nations Environment Programme shares some sobering statistics: ...

For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios ...

You’re driving somewhere, eyes on the road, when you start to feel a tingling sensation in your lower abdomen. That ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is legitimizing pseudoscience that is undermining food safety, genetic technologies, and critical agricultural practices ...

Why are some states trying to ban lab-grown meat? Conspiracy thinking prevails in the alternative health movement, and some of ...