Viewpoint: ‘Nature fetishism’ — Affluent Westerners increasingly reject science, spreading unwarranted suspicions about nuclear energy, biotech-modified seeds and vaccines

Viewpoint: ‘Nature fetishism’ — Affluent Westerners increasingly reject science, spreading unwarranted suspicions about nuclear energy, biotech-modified seeds and vaccines

Simon Kuper | 
If you asked people to name the most dangerous ideologies of our time, common answers would be authoritarianism, racism and ...
Viewpoint: Harvard fellow on why crop engineering is crucial to addressing food security and growing sustainability challenges

Viewpoint: Harvard fellow on why crop engineering is crucial to addressing food security and growing sustainability challenges

Camilla Cavendish | 
We routinely assume that “natural” is better than “unnatural” when it comes to food. But it is more complex than ...
Vaccines appear less effective against virulently mutating COVID strains spreading through UK and South Africa

Vaccines appear less effective against virulently mutating COVID strains spreading through UK and South Africa

Clive Cookson, Sebastian Payne | 
News that the B.1.1.7 [UK COVID] variant is evolving further mutations is worrying scientists, said Julian Tang, clinical virologist at ...
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CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna opposes germline-editing moratorium: ‘We’re going to have to figure it out’

Hannah Kuchler | 
Jennifer Doudna wears her responsibility lightly. The scientist who co-discovered Crispr does not appear to be weighed down by the ...
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Diagnostics, drug discovery, disease: How CRISPR is solving medicine’s biggest problems

Anjana Ahuja | 
This is the public face of genome editing or, as it is sometimes called, gene editing: a technology capable of ...
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