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Children receive four times as many genetic mutations from dads than moms
Children inherit four times as many new mutations from their fathers than their mothers, according to research that suggests faults ...
UK science advisor: Agricultural pesticides important, but better regulations needed to limit environmental impacts
The assumption by regulators around the world that it is safe to use pesticides at industrial scales across landscapes is ...
European Food Safety Authority report on glyphosate herbicide copied parts of Monsanto document
Glyphosate is the core ingredient in Monsanto’s $4.75bn a year RoundUp weedkiller brand and a battle over its relicensing has ...
Is ‘light drinking’ while pregnant really that bad?
Drinking in pregnancy is a fraught issue and causes much anxiety. Last year new guidance to the NHS in England ...
Alzheimer’s shock: DNA ancestry tests often tell customers more than they want to know
People who use genetic tests to trace their ancestry only to discover that they are at risk of succumbing to ...
Is sugar as addictive as hard drugs? Scientists say that’s ‘absurd’
An article suggesting that sugar should be considered an addictive substance, and could even be on a par with abusive ...
Billionaire Randal Kirk behind GMO salmon, apples and mosquitoes
The world’s first genetically modified fish farm is a subsidiary of Intrexon, a $2.2bn company headed by Randal Kirk, a ...
Male sterility may be correctable through stem cell treatments, if mice studies lead to human cure
A common genetic cause of male infertility has been overcome in mice using a technique that creates healthy sperm in ...
Environmentalist Stewart Brand: Opposing GMOs ‘the biggest mistake the environmental movement has ever made’
If we are serious about curbing climate change, what would actually help? More people in cities, lots of nuclear power ...
What’s behind surge in male infertility? ‘We have no idea’
According to scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sperm counts among men in the west have more than halved in ...
Are consumer genetic tests making people healthier?
A growing number of [home genetic-testing] kits (brands such as 23andMe, DNAFit, Thriva, MyHeritage DNA, and Orig3n) promise to unlock ...
Megafarms: ‘US model’ large-scale livestock farms offer efficiency—and consequences
Intensive farming of livestock offers many advantages over traditional open ranges, not least economies of cost and scale, more efficient ...
Middle East tryst: Hominins and Neanderthals may have mated 410,000+ years ago
[In a recent study, scientists examined the] Neanderthal mitochondrial genome from a femur that was excavated in 1937 from the Hohlenstein-Stadel ...
Holy Communion: Vatican approves GMO bread but rejects ‘gluten-free’
The unleavened bread used to celebrate the holy communion during Catholic masses can be made with genetically modified organisms, the Vatican said ...
DNA of sports: What can genes tell us about our athletic and running potential?
Imagine someone had tested my genes as a podgy kid and told me: [S]orry, it’s not through lack of effort ...
Biological countdown: Male fertility fights the clock, too
For men who are reluctant to start a family, it is an age-old defence: there is no need to rush ...
Did EPA and Monsanto conspire to downplay potential danger of glyphosate before EU review?
The European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking a Monsanto weedkiller to cancer after counsel from a US Environmental ...
IQ-DNA connection deepens: 40 genes identified that contribute to intelligence
The research on 60,000 adults and 20,000 children uncovered 40 new genes that play a role in intelligence, a haul ...
World’s first sex robot: She also smiles, tells jokes and quotes Shakespeare
In the brightly lit robotics workshop at Abyss Creations’ factory in San Marcos, California, a life-size humanoid was dangling from a ...
How will Sonny Perdue’s appointment to secretary of agriculture affect small family farms?
Donald Trump owes his election in no small part to the support of farm country. But since entering office, almost ...
‘Hobbit’ origins? It’s unlikely that tiny species evolved from ancestor of modern humans
Researchers who studied the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores ...
Buried landmines could be detected with genetically modified bacteria
A team of researchers at an Israeli university has successfully tested a technology using fluorescent bacteria and lasers that could ...
Scientists push back over criticism that they pander to political correctness for rejecting genetic-based male-female differences
Mainstream journals increasingly publish studies that reveal how misleading assumptions about the sexes bias the framing of hypotheses, research design ...
EU leaning toward permanent ban of neonicotinoid insecticides, citing ‘acute risk to bees’
The world’s most widely used insecticides would be banned from all fields across Europe under draft regulations from the European ...
Age of Alzheimer’s onset accurately predicted by test of 31 genetic markers, study finds
Scientists have developed a new genetic test for Alzheimer’s risk that can be used to predict the age at which ...
Organic 2.0: Biodynamic farming gains popularity in the US, but could it feed everyone?
National retailers like Whole Foods are stocking more biodynamic brands – but critics are questioning biodynamic farming’s ability to feed ...
Chickens genetically engineered to act as surrogates could protect vulnerable breeds from avian flu
In a radical plan to preserve rare varieties [of chicken breeds] such as the Nankin, Scots Dumpy and Sicilian Buttercup, scientists ...
Did EU abuse emergency authorizations of neonicotinoids?
The EU has been criticised after a new legal analysis showed it had allowed scores of “emergency authorisations” of banned ...
