Genetic discovery could make more tomatoes taste like heirlooms

Science 2.0 | 
Genetic modification of food has happened for thousands of year. Tomatoes would still be the size of your thumb without ...
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Part II: How biotech corn and roundup ready soy work – And why they should not scare you

Michael Eisen | Science 2.0 | 
In Part II of his series of articles responding to anti-biotech activists, Professor Michael Eisen explains the reasons why GM ...
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Part 1: GMOs: Gene transfer is neither unnatural nor dangerous

Michael Eisen | Science 2.0 | 
Anti-agricultural biotech NGOs and activists raise a common and familiar set of fears in the campaign to get biotech foods ...

How Bt corn And Roundup ready soy work – And why they should not scare you

Michael Eisen | Science 2.0 | 
Last week I wrote about the anti-science campaign being waged by opponents of the use of genetically modified organisms in ...
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NGO’s California anti-GMO campaign’s dangerous War On Science

Michael Eisen | Science 2.0 | 
Backers of the “California Right To Know Genetically Engineered Food Act” are pitching it as a matter of providing information ...

Stem cells market – Is the government holding it back?

Science 2.0 | 
Stem cell research is very dynamic with research trends, focus, and approaches evolving rapidly - but increased government restrictions on ...
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GM technology can save crops, forests, endangered animals from scourge of fungal disease

Science 2.0 | 
More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's ...
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Combating depression with green care therapies

Caitlin Kight | Science 2.0 | 
One example of a promising but under-studied therapy is "green care" or "care farming," a type of intervention that uses ...
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Faith in nature can be fatal: Creating allergen free foods through GM technology

Lee Silver | Science 2.0 | 
How can one simple word -- organic -- have such different meanings? ...
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