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New T-cell treatment shows promise for treating leukemia
A new way of genetically altering a patient’s cells to fight cancer has helped desperately ill people with leukemia when ...
Gene therapy boost: FDA positions for faster reviews of new treatments
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 16] issued new guidelines to speed the introduction of treatments involving human cells ...
Are ‘gene drive’ trials too risky for field studies?
In 2013, scientists discovered a new way to precisely edit genes — technology called Crispr... One of the more intriguing ...
Food fears: How anti-science myths—like ‘clean eating’ and GMO health risks—make eaters anxious
We talk about food in the negative: What we shouldn’t eat, what we’ll regret later, what’s evil, dangerously tempting, unhealthy ...
Dicamba herbicide drift damaged 3.6 million acres of soybean crops in 25 states
A weed killer called dicamba has damaged more than 3.6 million acres of soybean crops, or about 4 percent of ...
Gene therapy that reboots body’s immune cells to fight non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma approved by FDA
The Food and Drug Administration on [October 19] approved the second in a radically new class of treatments that genetically reboot ...
Is sexual orientation ‘gaydar’ detection machine sound or ethical?
[Michal Kosinski] decided to show that it was possible to use facial recognition analysis to detect something intimate, something “people ...
Pumpkins, cucumbers, and watermelons diverged from a single melon ancestor
About 100 million years ago, the genome of a single melon-like fruit copied itself. Over time, this one ancestor became ...
Viewpoint: Climate change, pesticides endanger monarch butterfly populations
The life cycle of the monarch hinges on the availability of milkweed, but the prevalence of the herbicide Roundup has ...
Gene identified for disease resistance in bananas, may stave off ‘bananapocalypse’
For decades, biotech researchers and conventional breeders were foiled in their efforts to bring disease resistance to the Cavendish [banana] ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate herbicide’s ‘tough year’ could get much worse
Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, Roundup, has had a tough year. And it could get worse. With Roundup at the center ...
Why are thousands of bumblebees dying around the fragrant Linden trees of London?
Visitors in the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens near London have reported hundreds, if not thousands of bees, especially bumblebees, sick or ...
Sudden increase in Zika’s potency linked to small mutation
It remains one of the great mysteries of the Zika epidemic: Why did a virus that existed for decades elsewhere ...
Saving chocolate: Scientists develop disease-resistant hybrid cacao clones that dramatically increase yields
[F]ew cacao varieties are widely cultivated, and that’s a problem: Like many other crops, cacao is under constant threat from ...
Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide crisis divides farmers on pesticide regulations
Farmers planted a new kind of seed on 25 million acres of soybean and cotton fields this year. Developed by ...
CRISPR may allow us to choose the color of butterfly wings
Only nature can paint the gorgeous colors and patterns on a butterfly’s wings. But scientists said... they have mastered the ...
FDA approves first product claiming to reduce infant peanut allergies
A new powdered peanut product is the first food item allowed to claim it may reduce peanut allergies in infants, ...
Why do gene therapy treatments cost so much?
The first gene therapy treatment in the United States was approved recently by the Food and Drug Administration, heralding a new ...
‘Unscrupulous’ stem cell clinics targeted in FDA crackdown
The Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on dangerous stem cell clinics...while at the same time pledging to ease the path to approval ...
Unlocking the past: DNA ancestry tests rewrite family histories
A growing number of companies now offer DNA tests that promise to pinpoint a customer’s heritage and, with permission, to ...
First-ever gene-altering leukemia treatment approved by the FDA, uses patient cells to fight cancer
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first-ever treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own cells to fight cancer, a milestone ...
Harvard’s George Church: CRISPR could give us pig-to-human organ transplants within 2 years
In a bold scientific step that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers at Harvard and a ...
FDA questions safety of Impossible Burger’s veggie patties made with genetically engineered yeast
One of the chief selling points of the Impossible Burger, a much ballyhooed plant-based burger patty, is its resemblance to ...
Monsanto glyphosate case: Select documents suggest company tried to influence public debate over weed killer
Documents released [August 1, 2017] in a lawsuit against Monsanto raised new questions about the company’s efforts to influence the news media ...
Parts per billion trace amounts of glyphosate herbicide found in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
A growing number of foods commonly found in kitchens across America have tested positive for glyphosate, the herbicide that is ...
Gene therapy leukemia treatments approval expected by end of 2017
The approval of gene therapy for leukemia, expected in the next few months, will open the door to a radically ...
Why South Asia is a ‘living laboratory’ to study population genetics and disease
South Asians should be viewed not as a single population but as thousands of distinct groups reinforced by cultural practices ...
Video: Plant defenses turn caterpillar pests into cannibals
If you’re a hungry caterpillar and you’ve got a choice between eating a plant or another caterpillar, which do you ...
