New York Times
Viewpoint: ‘Bombarding’ public with facts won’t end opposition to GMO crops
In a paper published early this year in Nature Human Behavior, scientists asked 500 Americans what they thought about foods ...
What happens when DNA tests show that white nationalists aren’t as ‘pure’ as they thought?
On the hate site Stormfront, one of the largest online discussion forums dedicated to “white pride,” sharing DNA results with ...
China to increase farm imports from US as two nations call for ceasefire in ‘multibillion-dollar tariff war’
President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China agreed on [June 29] to resume trade talks after a seven-week breakdown, ...
Viewpoint: Wellness industry obsession with ‘thin’ preserves ‘vicious fallacy’ and hurts women’s health
[Wellness is] a dangerous con that seduces smart women with pseudoscientific claims of increasing energy, reducing inflammation, lowering the risk ...
Consumer genetic testing and how to protect your DNA data
Consumer DNA testing kits like those from 23andMe, Ancestry.com and MyHeritage promise a road map to your genealogy and, in ...
CRISPR, ‘speed breeding’ can help meet surging food demand on a warming planet
Farmers and plant breeders are in a race against time. The world population is growing rapidly .... but the amount ...
As orange growers battle citrus greening disease with antibiotics, should we fear ‘super bugs’?
A pernicious disease is eating away at Roy Petteway’s orange trees. The bacterial infection, transmitted by a tiny winged insect ...
Name recognition could be key to an early diagnosis tool for autism
Every pediatrician knows that it’s important to diagnose autism when a child is as young as possible, because when younger ...
Could we be designing babies from a menu of genetic options in 2045?
The year is 2045. The genomes of four billion humans have been sequenced, creating a huge pool of genetic information ...
Why a mysterious fungus could herald a dangerous era in drug-resistant infections
A fungus called Candida auris preys on people with weakened immune systems, and it is quietly spreading across the globe ...
We need a ‘global registry’ of all human gene-editing research, World Health Organization panel says
An influential committee of the World Health Organization said on [March 19] that it would be “irresponsible” to try to ...
MillerCoors sues Anheuser-Busch over corn syrup ‘fearmongering’ in Bud Light Super Bowl ad
The king in a Super Bowl commercial for Bud Light may have “just wanted to return some corn syrup to its rightful ...
Crime scene investigators couldn’t tell identical twins’ DNA apart. Until now
One night in November 1999, a 26-year-old woman was raped in a parking lot in Grand Rapids, Mich. Police officers ...
Cattle industry fights to preserve ‘meat’ label as plant-based meat-like products proliferate
The cattle ranchers and farm bureaus of America are not going to give up their hold on the word meat ...
Science and religion: Why ‘needless hostility’ could be hampering scientific discovery
I am no apologist for religion. As a psychologist, I believe that the scientific method provides the best tools with ...
Ancient DNA answering previously ‘unresolvable’ questions about extinct species
The idea that [the answer to ancient questions] might be preserved in [the DNA of] old specimens has been around ...
Rethinking evolution: Animals’ attraction to beauty may have nothing to do with survival
Numerous species have conspicuous, metabolically costly and physically burdensome sexual ornaments, as biologists call them. Think of the bright elastic ...
We need to produce 56 percent more calories by 2050—can we do it sustainably?
If the world hopes to make meaningful progress on climate change, it won’t be enough for cars and factories to ...
Genetically modified humans? Here’s why they already exist
It felt as if humanity had crossed an important line: In China, a scientist named He Jiankui announced on Monday ...
What if you think you’re Black, but your DNA test disagrees?
Three years ago, when Sigrid E. Johnson was 62, she got a call from a researcher seeking volunteers for a ...
Abuse of open records requests by activists, corporations threatens government transparency, report shows
Dennis J. Ventry Jr., a law professor at the University of California, Davis, drew the ire of tax preparation companies ...
White supremacists, milk and an ‘inconvenient truth’ about genetics
Nowhere on the agenda of the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, being held in San Diego...is ...
Patenting the genes of marine life and what it means for medicine
[Marine animal] DNA is included among thousands of patents owned by BASF, which calls itself “the largest chemical producer in the ...
‘Anger into activism’: One woman’s quest to raise awareness of BRCA mutations in Jewish populations
You don’t have to be Jewish to inherit one of the BRCA gene mutations. But these mutations, which increase the risk ...
Can we eradicate malaria with promising new gene drive technique?
Malaria is among the world’s worst scourges. In 2016 the disease, which is caused by a parasite and transmitted by ...
When consumer genetic tests disagree on critical mutations
[Matt Fender] wasn’t worried last December when he clicked a button to dump all the raw data from his 23andMe ...
Viewpoint: Precision medicine promises a lot, but has delivered little
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they’ve saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about ...
‘Living medicine’: Reengineering bacteria to tackle genetic diseases
In a study carried out over the summer, a group of volunteers drank a white, peppermint-ish concoction laced with billions ...
