Independent
France bans glyphosate sales at garden centers
France has announced a ban on over the counter sales of a brand of weedkiller from garden centres after the ...
Mythbusting: Little understood facts to calm chemophobia
All too often the use of the word “chemicals” in the news, in advertising and in common usage has the implication ...
New blood test is breakthrough in ovarian cancer screening
A new blood test for ovarian cancer has been found to detect twice as many cases as conventional methods, and ...
DNA testing machine calls UK genetic database into question
Police forces across the UK are testing technology that allows officers to analyse DNA samples in custody suites, amid fears ...
UK Independent editorial: Britain can’t afford to miss out on GMO benefits
Two decades ago, when the very real scare over “mad cow” disease undermined people’s trust in the safety of the ...
Monsanto chief: We did not grasp depth of consumer concerns over first GMOs
The American company that produced the world’s first genetically modified crop has admitted for the first time that its “hubris” ...
British researchers wait until after June elections to begin trial on GMO ‘super spud’
British scientists are developing a genetically modified “super spud” free of fungal diseases and other pest problems, as well as ...
He said/She said on GMOs: Mark Lynas v Claire Robinson
This week The Independent has been investigating the future of genetically modified food – nearly 20 years since the first ...
ActionAid spreads fear of GMOs in Uganda with pictures of rats with tumors
Donors to one of Britain’s largest humanitarian aid charities have been unwittingly funding an aggressive anti-GM food campaign in Africa ...
Human intestinal tissue successfully grown in mice
A segment of human intestine has been grown in laboratory mice for the first time as part of research that ...
Jack the Ripper’s identity remains a mystery after error in DNA analysis revealed
It was supposed to have been the definitive piece of scientific evidence that finally exposed the true identify of Jack ...
Social stigma of anorexia distracts from exploring genetic causes
Social pressure to be as slender as a catwalk model, as sylph-like as a Hollywood star, is said to be ...
Britain to scrutinize U.S. follow-up on individuals conceived through ‘three-parent’ IVF
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were ...
Vandana Shiva is no Ghandi, does the impoverished no favors
There have been several Indian pretenders to the Mahatma Gandhi legacy in the 66 years since his assassination, but only ...
H1N1 flu controversially engineered to escape immune system
A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment ...
Editorial: Anti-GM lobby holds back science advances in biotech
Work is afoot by British researchers to tackle malaria by genetically modifying mosquitoes so the population of the parasite’s insect ...
CRISPR gene editing commercialization divides former colleagues
The money men have moved in on a new technique for editing the human genome that promises to revolutionise the ...
What are the fixes if the world’s banana crops succumb to disease?
TR4 is the natural born killer of the banana world, capable of wiping out entire plantations within two to three ...
DNA tests show Elvis Presley prone to obesity and heart disease
Elvis Presley may have died because of genetic conditions that made him prone to obesity and heart disease - rather ...
Independent UK editorial: Environmental movement credibility hinges on embracing GMOs
Contrary to the scaremongering of the anti-GM lobby, genetic engineering is less science-run-mad than a much-needed means to better health ...
British biotech company focuses on creating cellular factories
Imagine bacteria that eats pollution in water or can recycle gold from electronics -- the scope of synthetic biology is ...
Ancient bacterial DNA suggest black death might not be gone for good
DNA analysis of the bacteria strains behind two black plague pandemics emerged, independently, from the black rat. That means another ...
GM crops could help to solve the problem of over-fishing
One of the thornier questions we face is how to feed a global population heading towards 10 billion and beyond ...
Italian woman with genetic disease condemns death threats received after defending animal experiments
An Italian woman suffering from a rare genetic illness has spoken out against the death wishes she was sent after ...
Genetics of forgetting a face
One in three people have inherited a genetic variation that impairs their ability to remember faces, according to a study ...
Project that resurrected extinct frog one of 2013’s “best inventions”
Time magazine named the Lazarus project--a project that created an embryo of an extinct frog species from non-living genetic material--one ...
Early Americans linked to Europe by DNA discovery
DNA extracted from the arm bone of a child who died in southern Siberia about 24,000 years ago has shed ...
21st century will be the age of precision genetics
Until now, it has only been possible to “edit” a living genome using dangerously blunt methods; modified viruses are sure ...
