Top 6 Four
Drug factories: GMOs and gene editing are poised to transform medicine. Here’s how.
On the hunt for plant-produced vaccines ...
Podcast: Ban ‘factory farming’? GMO mosquitoes coming this summer; anti-biotech groups aren’t ‘grassroots’
As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...
Viewpoint: Activist-inspired GMO cotton bans push Mexican farmers toward bankruptcy
Mexico has a long record of safely cultivating genetically modified (GM) cotton. For more than 20 years, cotton has been ...
‘Climate proofing’ the world’s food supply with edible microorganisms
We need a global food production system that is tolerant to unpredictable climate fluctuations ...
Viewpoint: The dark side of biodiversity—Why living ‘in harmony’ with nature is a fantasy
The coronavirus is a brutal reminder to citizens abused by the rhetoric of conservationist movements that biodiversity is also a ...
Podcast: GMOs to blame for coronavirus? Catching COVID-19 twice; junk studies fuel biotech skepticism
As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...
California grows 90% of America’s fresh strawberries. Does pesticide dependence threaten the industry’s future?
Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45 billion worth ...
Viewpoint: We’ll learn a lot from the coronavirus outbreak, but it will be ‘paid for in blood’
The coronavirus outbreak, now a pandemic spreading at an exponential rate throughout the world, is upending our routines, certainties and ...
Remember the questionable study claiming glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? Lead author reasserts her claim, EPA refutes it, and we take a second look
Sheppard and her co-authors are intent on favoring data that appears to support the existence of a risk from glyphosate ...
Podcast: ‘How to argue with a racist’—geneticist Adam Rutherford challenges what he calls ‘pseudoscience’ in genetics and politics
Adam Rutherford explains how to argue with a racist, hunting for the ghosts in the human genome, and recreating the ...
Podcast: One of the most infamous fakes in biology? How Ernst Haeckel’s disputed embryo images sows confusion about evolution
Kat Arney takes a closer look at some of the most controversial images in science - Ernst Haeckel's illustrations of ...
Can DNA predict who might be a mass murderer?
There have been repeated attempts over the past 50 years to find genetic links to criminal behavior or mass murderers ...
Reconsidering LSD and other psychedelic drugs for treating depression and anxiety
There is a movement underway to reconsider how LSD and other psychedelic drugs are regulated. If restrictions were loosened, these ...
Growing tiny brains for research: Should we ‘frantically panic’ that something might go awry?
As mini-brains become more advanced, some researchers are worried they'll develop consciousness ...
Viewpoint: At least 200,000 people die every year GMO Golden Rice is kept off the market
This is not a story of incompetence and ignorance, but of an antediluvian hostility to science and technology ...
‘No one wanted to touch it’: Why a Lyme disease vaccine has been so elusive
The first human Lyme vaccine was pulled off the market nearly twenty years ago. A new effort faces lingering suspicions ...
Does the ‘genetics revolution’ unsettle you? Here is a guide, and reasons to be hopeful
I'm thrilled that DNA science has become so much more tangible and practical. Yet we must use the information wisely ...
Brave new world? Why the public might be ready for gene-edited babies
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9 are rapidly bringing the possibilities forward ...
Can we find the keys to drug abuse, opioid addiction in our genes?
We still have much to learn about genetics, addiction, and even the brain itself ...
Can genetic screening help identify soldiers less likely to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder?
Research offers new support for the idea that genetics can play a key role in determining why some people develop ...
Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
‘Drink like there is tomorrow’: Inside the quest to prevent hangovers with a GMO probiotic
Engineered probiotics and other microbes provide amazing opportunities ...
Ancestry tests underreport African genetic diversity, limiting benefits of precision medicine for blacks. Here’s how we can change that.
The newly-sequenced African genomes will help fill in the outlines of the origin and diversification of humanity ...
How a ‘dubious’ 50-year-old study fuels marijuana use by pregnant women—against the advice of health experts
Social media users extol — and health experts decry — a study from Jamaica suggesting cannabis use poses no harm ...
4 things to know about epigenetics, including that most changes are not passed on to offspring
Far more is unknown about epigenetics than is known. Let’s have a look at what we do know ...
What sperm banks could learn from Fox’s ‘Almost Family’ and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel ‘The Testaments’
It’s time for tighter regulation of assisted reproductive technologies ...
Sustainable dyes and fabrics created through synthetic biology promise to revolutionize fashion industry
The fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of global carbon emissions; that is more than air and sea transport ...
