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There’s an unbreachable divide between advocates of modern conventional agriculture and, essentially, everyone else, from the mainstream (organic, local, anti-GMO) ...

The vaccines widely used by humans today — especially those used to protect children against mumps, measles, and other potentially deadly ...

For the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador writes, in part: Nowhere is the power and prowess of agricultural science ...

There’s a strong case that field corn, used as a grain, is the single most important food crop on the ...

Just as more Americans grow wary of GMOs, the scientific community is moving in the opposite direction. There is now ...

Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed. Visions of ...

The plight of the threatened honeybee was made a national priority last month when President Obama announced the first National ...

A few years ago, a team at the National Institutes of Health set out to study healthy people's DNA. They ...

Oncologist Nizar M. Tannir has seen kidney tumors larger and more aggressive than the 8-inch, 31/2-pound behemoth surgeons removed from Philip ...

Using synthetic biology techniques, researchers have created everything from new flavors and fragrances to new types of biofuels and materials. While the ...

In a few months time, those suffering from skin cancer may find an unlikely hero in their treatment regimen: herpes. A ...

Say the words “green revolution,” and people take sides. ... As polarizing ideas go, though, the green revolution’s got nothing on ...

Sex is a messy, inefficient method of reproducing, but most multicellular organisms have evolved to rely on a partner regardless ...

Cheap meat might leave consumers with extra cash, but it has — largely — come at the expense of animal ...

In 2003, a flashy little fish swam into the U.S. market, becoming the newest fad — and the newest controversy ...

Pass any Chipotle these days — and it is my gastronomic preference to pass rather than enter — and you ...

The past hundred million years or so have not been kind to the dinosaurs. Once formidable “terrible lizards,” their closest modern descendant is the distinctly unimpressive chicken. Now ...

Are consumers right to think that organic food is safer and healthier? It seems like a straightforward question, especially for ...

Smith College announced it will admit transgender women to a school known as a bastion of female education. This is a reversal for Smith, ...

Chipotle Restaurants have earned billions of dollars by making indulgence wholesome, or seem so. Its latest marketing campaign, however, takes ...

You might think the USDA "organic" label is reserved for foods produced without any man-made chemicals. But under government rules, "organic" ...

There is a growing sense that people — in particular those who don't suffer from celiac disease — are being a ...

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed ...

Washington Post releases a new interactive feature online that delves into 7 ways medical technology has evolved over the past ...

On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...

A study by Cornell University Professor William Lesser found that if GMO labeling is required in New York, a family of ...

Eighty-eight percent of scientists polled by the Pew Research Center in January said genetically modified food is generally safe to eat ...

After my public lectures on evolution, someone in the audience invariably asks, “Are we still evolving?” People want to know ...