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Video: WaPo investigation raises questions about large dairy farm’s compliance with USDA organic standards
[A] closer look at Aurora [Organic Dairy] and other large operations highlights critical weaknesses in the unorthodox inspection system that ...
Neonicotinoid insecticides in trace level parts per trillion detected in drinking water in Iowa
[A] team of chemists and engineers at the [U.S. Geological Survey] and University of Iowa reported that they found neonicotinoids ...
Does poor motivation or ‘bad parenting’ cause ADHD? Studies say it’s in the brain structure
For the first time, scientists can point to substantial empirical evidence that people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have brain structures that differ ...
Why high-risk breast cancer patients are foregoing genetic testing and counseling
Doctors often fail to recommend genetic testing for breast-cancer patients, even those who are at high risk for mutations linked ...
New GMO book shifts debate from science to fears of ‘corporate control’ of food and farming
The Pew Research Center recently polled Americans on their concerns about genetically modified foods. Predictably, given the popular consternation around ...
China aggressively challenges US lead in precision medicine
The United States has long been the [genomic] industry’s undisputed leader,...but now China is emerging as America’s fiercest competitor.... ...
Non-browning Arctic Apple hit shelves February 1: Will they change consumers’ opinions about GMOs?
The fruit, sold sliced and marketed under the brand Arctic Apple, could hit a cluster of Midwestern grocery stores as ...
Agriculture Department: No gag order on its scientists
Employees of the scientific research arm at the Agriculture Department were ordered Monday to cease publication of “outward facing” documents and news ...
Does Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” list discourage Americans from eating fresh produce?
Editor's note: This article examines the potential influence of the Environmental Working Group's annual Dirty Dozen list of foods with the ...
Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue tapped as next agricultural secretary
Donald Trump has chosen former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue to be his secretary of agriculture, completing a protracted search with ...
Free genealogy website has lots of ‘private’ information about you
There are many “people search” sites and data brokers out there, like Spokeo, or Intelius, that also know a lot about ...
Severe lack of genetic counselors threatens quality of patient care
We don’t have enough genetic counselors. We don’t have enough doctors who understand genetics. So when people get genetic tests, ...
Dogs emerging as new model to research cancer cures for humans
The growing interest in dogs reflects researchers’ frustration with the standard approach to developing cancer treatments: testing them in lab ...
Breast microbiome different in women with cancer
Much of the news on this topic has been about the colony of bacteria deep in your gut; scientists believe that the ...
This report may address your concerns about the health of ‘3-parent’ DNA babies
More than 15 years ago, 17 babies were born after an experimental infertility treatment that gave them DNA from three ...
How our Neanderthal ancestry helps us survive in the modern world
For the most part, [the DNA we inherited from Neanderthals] has been detrimental...[Neanderthal DNA] has been blamed for increasing risk of depression, ...
Should we sequence DNA of healthy newborn babies?
Genome sequencing is supposed to be the future of medicine — a revolution that will bring about a new age ...
Harvard’s Calestuous Juma’s book addresses why humans resist beneficial innovations like GMOs
From coffee to... genetically altered food, history is littered with innovations that sparked resistance before becoming fixtures in everyday life... ...[H]umans often oppose ...
Loneliness may have evolved in humans to help us survive
Loneliness...can...make you depressed, shatter your sleep, [or] even kill you. Yet scientists think loneliness evolved because it was good for ...
Brain scans show that dogs do understand human speech
[S]cientists in Hungary...have published a groundbreaking study that found dogs understand both the meaning of words and the intonation used to ...
Media shouting match over neonicotinoids isn’t helping bees
[Bees have] become pawns in the ag wars, the subject of dueling bee-death narratives. In one of those story lines, pesticides ...
Gene test may identify if breast cancer patients need chemotherapy or not
Doctors have long known that many early-stage breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy don't actually need it to prevent recurrence ...
Consumer beware: NIH database of cost-free-trials includes numerous ‘for a fee’ tests
The 16-year-old [ClinicalTrials.gov] website is the most comprehensive such database publicly available in the United States, with listings for nearly 220,000 ...
Dentists may start using stem cells to fix teeth
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the 1700s, people ...
Gene that leads to cancer also responsible for complex life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How did life get ...
CDC forms Zika response teams but expects only scattering of cases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. health officials plan ...
How much is athletic ability influenced by genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Take a look around ...
Postpone the Olympics, urge 150 experts on Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than 100 prominent physicians, ...
