Wall Street Journal
Cumbersome regulatory approval of GMOs in China hurts innovation
China’s government has too many rules restricting the adoption of genetically modified food, and that’s ultimately hurting its long-term competitiveness ...
U.S. regulators to blame for lack of progress in biopharming
Dr. Henry Miller’s cri de coeur is well-earned: he was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology (too ...
Push for Ebola cure continuing into new year
Global health experts are preparing to test new treatments for Ebola in West Africa that they hope will eventually vanquish ...
Progress and promises of immunotherapy in cancer treatment
’s stomach ached. The New York City teacher had been drinking cup after cup of coffee as he labored to ...
Anti-conventional ag movement spurs Big Ag to look to organic pesticides
Seed and pesticide makers like BASF SE , DuPont Co. , Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. are investing heavily to ...
Time lapse video: GMO Arctic Apple, awaiting US approval, does not brown over 24 hours
Two sliced apples sit on either side of a clock as a time-lapse video compresses 24 hours into 30 seconds ...
Genetic screening of embryos for Alzheimer’s but hiding results from parents
Doctors are devising new ways to shield patients from information about their odds for disease as genetic testing becomes more ...
Cost barriers limit promising GM blood cancer treatments
Cancer treatments that genetically modify patients’ blood cells to target the disease have shown amazing results in clinical trials. Now ...
Stress caused by poverty reduces mom’s ability to nurture—and may be passed on in genes
From the inside, nothing in the world feels more powerful than our impulse to care for helpless children. But new ...
Some patients with genetic risk start Alzheimer’s prevention strategies in their 30s
Max Lugavere seems an unlikely patient to be sitting in an Alzheimer's clinic. The fit, 32-year-old, dressed in Converse All-Star ...
Sperm contains dad’s lifestyle information alongside basic genetic material
Since I'm a guy, this may sound weird, but I've always found sperm to be pretty boring as cells. You ...
Climate Corp co-founder is Monsanto’s new unlikely champion
When Monsanto Co. purchased Climate Corp. for $930 million last year, it got a San Francisco-based startup that crunches weather data to improve ...
Riken institute scales down stem cell research following scandal
A scandal that started with a few suspicious images has led Japan's most prestigious research institute to slash its stem-cell ...
Ebola drug ‘ZMapp’ shows potential of biopharmed medicine
A handful of patients in the largest-ever Ebola outbreak have been treated with an experimental drug called ZMapp. American missionaries ...
Meet Brett Begemann, the ‘evil wizard’ behind Monsanto
Before you can finish typing "Monsanto employees" into Google, the search engine suggests "Monsanto evil." The world's largest-grossing seed seller ranks between one ...
Food makers begin ousting GMOs from products
Two decades after the first genetically engineered seeds were sold commercially in the U.S., genetically modified organisms—the crops grown from ...
Alzheimer’s proteins in eyes may be key to early detection
Efforts to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier and more cheaply are focusing on signs of the ailment in the eye and ...
Poorest have most to gain from GMOs, hurt most by GMO scare-mongering
The Grocery Manufacturers Association brought a lawsuit in response to Vermont becoming the first state to require GMO labeling regardless ...
Video: San Fran startup Cambrian Genomics set to edit your embryo’s DNA
San Francisco startup Cambrian Genomics is making lots and lots of synthetic DNA, some of which they hope to sell ...
Second Chinese citizen connected to alleged 5-year GM seed theft scheme arrested
U.S. authorities arrested a second Chinese citizen in connection with an alleged conspiracy to steal high-tech corn seed developed by ...
Genes of best sleepers might offer clues for many diseases
In a lab at the University of California, San Francisco, a husband-and-wife team is working to unravel the secrets of ...
Google will be home for 10,000 genomes for autism research
Google Inc. and Autism Speaks, a major autism research foundation, plan to announce on Tuesday a deal in which the ...
There is no ‘bee armageddon’: Misguided neonics ban threatens honeybees and farming
European Union instituted a precautionary ban on neonicotinoid pesticides before actually examining beehives. European farmers, faced with the ban, are ...
Circadian rhythm of water transport protein affects skin cycles throughout the day
Researchers have discovered a protein that regulates the circadian ebb and flow of water in and out of the skin's ...
Genetic susceptibility and well-timed exposures responsible for adult allergies
Allergies are largely genetic. If a parent has allergies, chances are good the children will too. But that doesn't necessarily ...
Senior Chinese official: GMO ‘cutting-edge global technology’ despite criticism
A stream of public criticism from retired military officials against China’s rising engagement with genetically modified food doesn’t amount to ...
Greenpeace, Chinese official claim GM soybeans cause infertility, warn against US grain imports
GMO food is closely identified as a tool of Western strategic policy among Chinese military men, regardless of whether there’s ...
Matching cancer genes and immune cells key to unlocking immune system’s treatment power
In a strategy that combines two of the hottest ideas in cancer research, scientists at the National Institutes of Health ...
