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Is the White House interfering with a scientific review?
Leaked documents from the FDA suggest that the first transgenic animal to be considered for federal approval in the U.S ...
Are GM foods safe? Opponents are skeptical
Are the emotionally charged, politicized discourse on GMOs mired in the kind of fever swamps that have polluted climate science ...
Prop 37: Pro-GM writer calls the California GMO labeling initiative a “misleading campaign”
The race is on to define Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would require labels for most genetically modified foods ...
Muscular dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “immigration delay disease”: When DNA fails
We’ve seen already how freely genetics borrows from grammar books to describe how DNA works. Linguistic analogies also help make ...
Death of “Frankenfood”?
For more than a decade, Europe has faced fierce debate over genetically modified organisms—specifically, consumer crops that have had their ...
How will abortion politics be effected by advent of advanced DNA screening ?
Today, if you’re pregnant with a defective fetus, you won’t know about the problem till you’re well along. At 10 ...
The future of food: GMOs
But most of the latest advancements in food technology go beyond dessert. Rather, scientists are motivated by an impending agricultural ...
Will Gattaca come true?
Noninvasive, early fetal tests for sex, paternity and chromosomal conditions will change pregnancy dramatically- and raise tricky ethical questions.A scientist ...
Mom: ‘I’d never buy organics because I’m afraid there are dangerous pesticides on conventional produce’
YOU NEED TO SAY IN AN EDITOR'S NOTE WHO THIS 'MOM' IS When my son was a baby, organic was a ...
