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Blood test can prevent suicide? How to prevent “biomarker porn”

Andrew Porterfield | 
Biomarker testing is the shiny new thing. Some scientists claim they can predict complex mental disorders. It would be nice ...
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Precision medicine–Next new thing or over hyped bust? (Or both?)

Andrew Porterfield | 
Precision medicine struggles to fulfill its promise as a next generation solution to disease prevention ...
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Activists blame scientists, GMOs for dying iconic Italian olive trees, block GM solution

Andrew Porterfield | 
Olive trees in Italy are falling victim to a new bacteria. Scientific solutions are being replaced by hysteria, blocking GMO ...
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Genetic testing lags for mental illness, forces parents to internet

Andrew Porterfield | 
Genetic counseling for potential mental illness in children should be just as responsive as counseling for "physical" disease. Right now, ...
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Full IARC glyphosate report released; Anti-GMO target may have health benefits

Andrew Porterfield | 
Glyphosate is well known as a comparatively mild pesticide but has become a target of anti-GMO activists. They may be ...
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Will sugar, sweetener, salt, cholesterol, fat, HFCS, (fill in blank) kill you?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Scientists, the media and policymakers often make glib connections between certain foods, nutrition and disease. The links are a lot ...
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Anti-GMO myth busted—We’re not losing plant genetic diversity after all

Andrew Porterfield | 
Anti-GMO activists and even some science publications claim GMOs are accelerating the trend toward a drastic loss in biodiversity. They ...
ADHD mystery: Claims of no attention deficit disorder in France challenged

ADHD mystery: Claims of no attention deficit disorder in France challenged

Andrew Porterfield | 
Some say low French ADHD rates reflect poor diagnoses. Others say they show ADHD isn't biological. Geneticists say they're working ...
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Seed bank advantages lost in fog of anti-GMO war

Andrew Porterfield | 
While anti GMO activists push for organics, a complimentary answer to feeding the world may lie in seed banks. Only ...
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Genetics may open door to new treatments of mental disorders

Andrew Porterfield | 
Mental disorders are notoriously hard to treat. We now know that many psychological diseases are rooted in our DNA. That's ...
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Why regulators conclude glyphosate safe while IARC, alone, claims it could cause cancer?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Glyphosate joins apples, coffee, sunning and night shift work as an IARC "probable" carcinogen. But the real risk to humans ...
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Fraud or drift? USDA finds 43 percent of organic foods contain ‘prohibited’ substances

Andrew Porterfield | 
Pesticides have been found in nearly half of organic fields. Is this a case of accidental drift, or fraud? ...
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Neuroscience of free will: Does reaching for beer with robotic arm mean free will doesn’t exist?

Andrew Porterfield | 
If we can predict a person’s intentions by picking up brain signals then how 'free' is our will and are ...
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Farm to boardroom: US organic industry dominated by mega corporations

Andrew Porterfield | 
According to the anti-GMO narrative, organic is frail David fighting for its life against the Goliaths of Big Ag and ...
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Can aging be treated with drugs?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Geneticists have found several genes that seem to affect longevity. Are we on the verge of finding "treatments" for aging? ...
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Brain confusion: Why it’s so difficult to find cures for mental disorders

Andrew Porterfield | 
Many mental illnesses still defy treatment. The problem may be that we do not "know" how the brain functions very ...
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Farmers abandoning organic farming despite lure of higher price premiums

Andrew Porterfield | 
Organic food sales are booming and some studies claim it's more profitable for farmers because of cprice premiums. But costs ...
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Epic FBI DNA database may reveal private health information

Andrew Porterfield | 
Database behind nearly all DNA-based forensic investigations may also have our health information. Or not. Should we be concerned? ...
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Asthma and Atopic March Syndrome caused by GMOs? Science says ‘No’

Andrew Porterfield, Jon Entine | 
Anti-GMO activists have lumped together a lot of allergic reactions into a syndrome caused by GMOs. Asthma shows how wrong ...
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Genetic modification of trees faces forest of protests

Andrew Porterfield | 
Genetic modification of trees could help mitigate climate change and increase wood and paper production. But opposition to even basic ...
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Anti-GMO stance by Greenpeace, other environmental activists, worsen climate change

Andrew Porterfield | 
The evidence suggests that GM crops can and do contribute to reducing global climate change. But high profile environmental groups, ...
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