New York Times
New York Times reporter claims GMO crops have failed to live up to expectations
The promise of genetic modification was twofold: By making crops immune to the effects of weedkillers and inherently resistant to ...
Moral ‘slippery slope’: Neuroscience reveals how fibbing can spiral out of control
People who tell small, self-serving lies are likely to progress to bigger falsehoods, and over time, the brain appears to ...
Infamous HIV “Patient Zero” declared innocent after genetic analysis
In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, aka Gaétan Dugas, a ...
Though few GMO crops in China, officials cultivating pro-biotech attitudes
For many in China, the term “genetically modified food” evokes nightmares: poisoned seeds, contaminated fields, apocryphal images of eight-legged chickens ...
Refrigerating tomatoes causes genetic changes that reduce flavor
The tomato hitching a ride home in your grocery bag today is not the tomato it used to be. ...[I]f ...
Michael Pollan claims ‘Big Food’ out-lobbies the ‘food movement’
Simply put, [Big Food] is the $1.5 trillion industry that grows, rears, slaughters, processes, imports, packages and retails most of the ...
Large supplement maker adopting DNA testing to verify ingredients
NBTY, one of the nation’s largest makers of popular supplements like ginkgo biloba and ginseng, has agreed to conduct advanced ...
‘Industrial farming’ and crop biotechnology benefit the environment
...[Since the mid-20th century], farm sizes have risen significantly... [T]his large size that is often criticized... in the belief that ...
Human ancestors may have moved out of Africa in one single migration
Modern humans evolved somewhere in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the ...
Quality of medical research should carry more weight than source of funding
Health care professionals make hundreds of decisions a day. A small fraction of them are based on evidence from rigorous ...
Should parents elect not to pass down their genetic disabilities to their children?
I have a condition called X-linked hypophosphatemia, or XLH, which results in a form of dwarfism. ... I have a ...
Mark Bittman: GMO labeling law could increase transparency on food production
President Obama recently signed the weakest [GMO] labeling law imaginable, and to most of the food movement, this felt like ...
Cell therapy could deliver huge blow against cancer
Dr. [Steven] Rosenberg, Dr. Carl H. June...and Dr. Michel Sadelain...have been at the forefront of this research for decades,...[bringing] to ...
Cancer doctors optimistic over success of immunotherapy
Harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, long a medical dream, is becoming a reality. Remarkable stories of tumors melting ...
Business booming for stem cell therapy clinics despite dearth of evidence of effectiveness
Out of nowhere, over the past two to three years, the clinics have sprung up — 570 in the United ...
Americans disinterested in using science to build better humans
Americans aren’t very enthusiastic about using science to enhance the human species. Instead, many find it rather creepy. A new ...
US government seeking 1 million volunteers for decade-long genetics and lifestyle study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Government scientists are seeking ...
Popular misconceptions about GMOs, labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Trial involving genetically engineered cancer-killing cells halted over patient deaths
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Three patients in a ...
Senate’s GMO labeling bill clears major hurdle, final approval expected this week
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal bill that ...
NYT: Senate’s labeling bill allows companies to hide GMO information from consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Senate is expected ...
Have media, scientists overstated what in biology epigenetics can explain?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Epigenetic marks are undoubtedly ...
Why we don’t inherit our father’s mitochondrial DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our mitochondrial DNA accounts ...
Reproducing without males? Bees can do it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The typical story of ...
Ethical questions surround China’s plans for full-body transplants
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Six years ago, Wang ...
National Academies approves gene drive research with cautious optimism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A revolutionary technology known ...
National Academies gene drive report supports research, raises ethical questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A revolutionary technology known ...
CRISPR can edit RNA, scientists report
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Just a few years ...
