Fruit tree gene could prevent GM cross-pollination with other plants

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Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from environmentalists, who worry that there could be contamination of organic food or ...

Ancient battle of sexes explains promiscuity, good parenting

Science 2.0 | 
Making babies is one of the fundamental conflicts of interest between the sexes. Care by either partner is beneficial to ...

Parallel universe of scientists who doggedly oppose GMOs

Steve Savage | Science 2.0 | 
A critical part of the scientific process is the conversation phase after the experimentation is done.  Scientists share their findings with ...
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Political views dictate what science issues receive the most attention

Hank Campbell | Science 2.0 | 
In American scientization of politics culture, evolution acceptance is a big deal, as is climate change. Yet other science acceptance ...

New findings on fragile X syndrome may explain why some drugs prove ineffectual

Science 2.0 | 
Scientists have gained new insight into fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, by studying the ...
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Dogs tell story of ancient human migration

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Dogs successfully migrated to the Americas about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. That's a long time ago ...

GMO plants can be used for biofuels

Science 2.0 | 
Biofuels have long been studied and, like many alternative fuels, given corporate subsidies by the government, but they haven't made much ...

Does reporting on behavioral genetics misinform the public?

Science 2.0 | 
A study of 1,500 Americans found that media reports about behavioral genetics create unfounded beliefs about what genes can and ...
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How activists planned assault on neonics (and bees)

Hank Campbell | Science 2.0 | 
Imagine a scenario where a group of people get together to frame the debate about science and even set out ...

Why don’t more farmers adopt organic methods? Ethics.

Science 2.0 | 
Organic food has quietly become a Big Ag juggernaut. Everyone talks aboutvideo games and the film industry, for example, but ...

Yellow fever mosquitoes’ genes pick up human odor

Science 2.0 | 
The yellow fever mosquito sustains its taste for human blood thanks to a genetic tweak that makes it more sensitive ...

Epigenetic markers may indicate type 2 diabetes risk

Science 2.0 | 
By studying identical twins, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified mechanisms that could be behind the development of ...
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Ice Storm of 1998 may have altered DNA of unborn babies

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Epigenetics has been used and abused in many ways - can it tell researchers that an expectant mother lived without ...
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Do you drink too much alcohol? It’s partly in the genes

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How people perceive and taste alcohol depends partly on genetic factors, and that influences whether they "like" and how much ...
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Can researchers make a biotech wheat that’s not a GMO?

Science 2.0 | 
>Researchers have discovered "the most famous wheat gene," a reproductive traffic cop of sorts that can be used to transfer ...

Efficacy of treatments and the rise of personalized medicine

Mark Lawler | Science 2.0 | 
Personalized medicine is the ability to tailor therapy to an individual patient so that, as it’s often put, the right ...
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Cornell survey: Anti-GMO activists favor environment over feeding starving poor

Science 2.0 | 
A Cornell University survey found that those interviewed who cared more about keeping people from starving were pro-GMO. People against ...
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GM not just about commodity farming: How it can rescue threatened coffee, chocolate, wine, bananas and OJ

Steve Savage | Science 2.0 | 
Many anti-GM campaigners lambast crop biotechnology because the first generation of genetic modification focused on commodity crops such as corn, ...

How insects evolve resistance to GMO Bt cotton

Science 2.0 | 
An international team has discovered what happens on a molecular basis to insects that evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton ...

Sequencing the Golden Eagle genome to help the birds avoid wind turbines

Science 2.0 | 
[A]n estimated 70 golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) are killed annually at even a single large wind farm - the Altamont Pass ...

Stem cell generated neurons from schizophrenics develop abnormally

Science 2.0 | 
Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of ...

Atomic mechanism for how DNA-protective telomerase is made may be target for aging therapies

Science 2.0 | 
Researchers have taken an atomic level look at the enzyme telomerase - and what they have found may unlock the ...

No right to deprive someone of safety tested, life-saving, vitamin-enhanced Golden Rice

Norm Benson | Science 2.0 | 
The blind girl lurched toward me across the parking lot at Tirta Empul temple, mewling. A whitish haze coated her eyes, ...
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Would you trust science or a yogic flying instructor with your food?

Hank Campbell | Science 2.0 | 
Professional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a ...
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California GMO labeling more about politicization of science

Hank Campbell | Science 2.0 | 
California State Sen. Noreen Evans wants any food that contains a genetically modified ingredient to have a special label declaring it - ...

3-Parent IVF stirs up all the old “designer baby” panic

Science 2.0 | 
Why is deciding abort a baby a legitimate ethical choice but choosing to have a boy is not? Some groups ...

Recent natural selection altered the appearance of europeans

Science 2.0 | 
It's no surprise that natural selection does not always take an evolutionary time scale. When thousands of knights died during ...

Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon

Hank Campbell | Science 2.0 | 
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
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