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Organic farmers condemn scientific method
If you don't believe in miracles like that organic produce is nutritionally superior or that you can taste GMOs in ...
Science 2.0 founder Hank Campbell responds to Neo-eugenics
Eugenics is attempting a 21st-century comeback. This has a lot of people scared. But it also has a lot of ...
“Fat and jolly” genetically linked
It used to be a stereotype that being fat meant you had a happy personality. Then culture went out of ...
In defense of eugenics
I expect that belief in eugenics is far more prevalent than most people would comfortably wish it to be. One ...
Europeans and Asians traded DNA 2,000 years ago
Genetic blending between Europeans and Asians occurred over 2,000 years ago in the Altai region of Mongolia, according to a ...
Organic versus inorganic: an important distinction, but not for obvious reasons
The distinction between organic and inorganic -- natural versus unnatural -- carries massive cultural, historical, and social freight, as demonstrated ...
Proposition 37.1: let’s start this conversation
In the shadow of Proposition 37's defeat maybe we can have a real conversation. Angry, uninformed discussion based on fear ...
Patient’s own stem cells no help in heart attack recovery
Autologous stem cells from bone marrow 3 or 7 days following a heart attack did not improve heart function six ...
Why is synthetic biology important?
In Regenesis the authors ask, “What should we do?” How can we balance economic growth and a sustainable environment? How ...
Feeding GM tomato to mice mimics effects of “good” cholesterol
At the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012, a study showed that genetically engineered tomato plants produced a peptide that ...
Rethinking GM, conventional, and organic food safety
What is "food safety?" Any pronouncement of "safety" is a qualified assessment and subject to being wrong depending on the ...
First human heart cell model developed using induced pluripotent stem cells
Researchers have successfully created a human heart cell model of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), an inherited heart muscle disorder ...
Eugenics reconsidered
Eugenics was embraced and even promoted by progressives 100 years ago as a tool to make the world a better ...
Eugenics 2012: Genetically engineering babies a moral obligation?
Both eugenics and social Darwinism had their moments in their sun, the optimistic goal of progressive techno-elites 100 years ago ...
Biotechnology is not all about foods only: What are the other applications?
Biotechnology is not all about foods only. There is much more in store for future of mankind. Even if we ...
European food safety agency dismisses anti-GM maize study as flawed
The European Food Safety Authority has dismissed as flawed the controversial maize study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research team ...
Prop. 37 is about language, not concept, says GM supporter
People who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to ...
GM foods present serious challenges
For those that want to complain about restricting technologies, the truth is that we do it all the time. According ...
Project ENCODE decoded
This month, dozens of papers have been published in Nature, Genome Research and Genome Biology, all detailing scientists’ efforts in ...
Plant biotechnologists “time travel” with their use of chemicals
In the last few months there have been two examples where we have seen brand new biotech crops that are ...
GMOs: Is food science growing up in Europe as America goes backwards?
For more than a decade, Europe has been as anti-science as can be imagined regarding genetically modified organisms — consumer ...
GMOs and California: To label or not to label?
Steve Savage, a plant pathologist working with agricultural technology, gives his explanation of why voters should absolutely vote 'no' on ...
Anti-GM ‘ambulance chasers’ poised to enter ‘litigation heaven’ if Prop 37 passes
The American Medical Association agrees with the USDA and wrote two months ago, "There is no scientific justification for special ...
Explaining obesity: Diet, lifestyle or genes?
Modern lifestyles are quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. That seems obvious. People looking to apply blame for ...
Sea creature called lancelet’s genetic mistake was a big win for humans
How did we arrive where we are? A dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best evidence that ...
The California GM labeling controversy joins list of historical food scares
Writer Kevin Folta takes aim at anti-GM activists in this piece, comparing the California GM labeling controversy with other food ...
500-year old gene provides window into evolution
Researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) - the bacterium has ...
Huh? Activists embrace new foods mutated with toxic chemicals and radiation, reject safe GMOs
Anti-GMO campaigners take no issue with new crops created by soaking seeds or tissues in toxic chemicals or subjecting them ...