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Should women heed RFK, Jr.’s warning that COVID shots can harm children of pregnant women? New study says ‘no’
A new study suggests that children of mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy are at 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental ...
‘A historic failure’: MIT management professor who falsely claimed Covid shots were ineffective and deadly appointed head of CDC vaccine oversight
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory group has long had a work group in place to ...
25% of people who lost sense of smell and taste after COVID infection do not recover senses
Millions of Americans have been infected with COVID-19 since the pandemic of the novel coronavirus began in March 2020, and ...
Your personal genomic profile could guide treatment if you contract COVID
Over the past few months, a number of drugs have been under investigation to treat COVID-19 without well-established safety or data to ...
Gene editing could cut food additive use and put more nutritious options in supermarkets
[In 2019], Minneapolis-based Calyxt introduced a soybean oil without trans fats for commercial sale. It was the first gene-edited food ...
New technique may yield gene-edited plants in a few weeks, instead of 9 months
A University of Minnesota research team recently developed new methods that will make it significantly faster to produce gene-edited plants ...
Synthetic incompatibility: Preventing GMO mosquitos from spreading their genes
A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes ...