innovation
Viewpoint: How biotech crops, lab-grown meat and other food innovations could jump start post-COVID economic recovery
COVID-19 threatens to slow or halt agricultural innovation in the US by exacerbating the decline in public R&D and threatening ...
Trends that will shape the 2020s: Psychedelics as medicine, diagnostic cell phone apps and AI prediction of disease outbreaks
Clearly, a lot can happen in a decade—but innovation has to start somewhere. Based on what’s breaking through now, here ...
Viewpoint: Historical opposition to tractors in farming mirrors modern campaign against GMO crops
[T]ractors made farm work more efficient and lowered food prices, but they also drove many farmers out of business. Farms ...
Viewpoint: Pricey gene therapies fuel debate over drug prices—and why there is no easy fix
By scrapping value added and sales taxes, we can cut down on drug pricing by up to 25% ...
‘Strange’ decade gave us CRISPR, gene therapy advances and a Neanderthal genome
[H]ere, we present some of the innovations, both conceptual and technological, that stood out throughout the past decade. … In ...
Viewpoint: Price controls would stifle private sector innovation that gives us most of our new biomedical drugs
The false maxim that the government is primarily responsible for all innovation has been refuted through published literature in peer-reviewed ...
Crop biotech industry fears ‘mistrust of science’ stifling farming innovation in Europe
For several weeks last fall I spent much of my time traveling across Europe, visiting with many of the representatives ...
Why people with ADHD may be more creative
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is typically described by the problems it presents. It is known as a neurological disorder, marked by ...
Viewpoint: We’re letting bureaucracy get in the way of diagnostic innovation
Should we be making it easier for companies to bring new tests to market, rather than having a process that ...
Artificial intelligence: How can we regulate without stifling innovation?
There is disagreement among some of the top minds in technology when it comes to the subject of regulating artificial ...
Viewpoint: European anti-tech groups threaten to derail CRISPR gene editing in agriculture
The political decision of how to regulate gene editing and other New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) will determine whether Europe becomes ...