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GMO-free: Corporate irresponsibility trend
Pass any Chipotle these days — and it is my gastronomic preference to pass rather than enter — and you ...
Scientists reverse evolution in birds to make them more like dinosaurs
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 ...
USDA organics chief silent on whether organic is safer, healthier
Are consumers right to think that organic food is safer and healthier? It seems like a straightforward question, especially for ...
Smith College will admit transgender women, but is it still lagging on gender issues?
Smith College announced it will admit transgender women to a school known as a bastion of female education. This is a reversal for Smith, ...
Organic board busts ‘no synthetic pesticides’ myth, okays new herbicides and fungicides
You might think the USDA "organic" label is reserved for foods produced without any man-made chemicals. But under government rules, "organic" ...
Washington Post editorial: Chipotle promotes fear in gimmick claim to remove GMOs
Chipotle Restaurants have earned billions of dollars by making indulgence wholesome, or seem so. Its latest marketing campaign, however, takes ...
Gluten-free fits food myth narrative about eating ‘unnatural’ foods
There is a growing sense that people — in particular those who don't suffer from celiac disease — are being a ...
Forensic scandal: FBI admits it provided false testimony in bungled hair analyses
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed ...
Game of Life and Death: Can you dare the odds and make it past 100?
Washington Post releases a new interactive feature online that delves into 7 ways medical technology has evolved over the past ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault guards mankind’s food supply in case of crop apocalypse
On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...
Would GMO labeling cause $500 increase in grocery bill?
A study by Cornell University Professor William Lesser found that if GMO labeling is required in New York, a family of ...
Washington Post editorial: Mandatory GMO labeling is unnecessary
Eighty-eight percent of scientists polled by the Pew Research Center in January said genetically modified food is generally safe to eat ...
Human evolution ‘now in our hands,’ some scientists say
After my public lectures on evolution, someone in the audience invariably asks, “Are we still evolving?” People want to know ...
Genetics tapped to increase chicken size as American tastes and waists expand
Chicken is the most commonly eaten animal in this country, surpassing beef or pork. And with dietary recommendations that Americans eat ...
Egg-freezing advocates invoke fear to win patients
Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too long to ...
Eaten alive: Crops can ‘feel’ insects eating them, providing clues to insect resistance
A new study arrived at the fairly gruesome conclusion that plants can feel insects eat them alive. And a specific type of plant, ...
Nevada lawmaker calls cancer a ‘fungus’, says it can be cured by water and baking soda
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore said recently that she will propose a "Right to Try" bill in her state. But it's ...
How the AIDS epidemic came to be
The common narrative holds that the spread of HIV and AIDS among humans can be traced back to one flight ...
Is organic grass-fed beef healthier than grain fed?
Almost always, when I talk to scientists and farmers about food supply issues — whether it’s farm size, organic methods, ...
Obama wants single food safety agency
To understand America’s fragmented food safety inspection system, consider a slice of frozen pizza. The pepperoni is examined by the ...
Washington Post: Denying scientific consensus on GMOs victimizes developing countries
But the biggest gap between public opinion and scientific consensus in the United States is not in the realm of ...
Are genomically recoded organisms needed to keep GMOs on a leash?
Let’s talk about the latest news. Last week we reported on two papers in Nature describing breakthrough techniques in modifying ...
Is there a scientific basis to the paleo diet?
The problem with modern diets is that they rely too heavily on modern, processed foods. If only we emulated the ...
GMO American chestnut tree unique among GM innovations
It was nearly 400 years ago that the Pilgrims sat down with the Wampanoag to share the feast that is ...
Lactose tolerance evolved much later than previously believed
As early humans shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture, their genomes shifted, too. But according to new research, the ...
Do patents limit GMO research and farmers choice? Only a little
A 1980 Supreme Court decision that allowed patents to be granted to living things kicked off a controversy. The basic ...
Genetic factors make women more susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease than men
Years ago, many scientists assumed that a woman’s heart worked pretty much the same as a man’s. But as more ...
Moving closer to GM cup of coffee
A consortium of scientists announced in Science that they've sequenced the coffee genome for the first time. By determining all of the ...
