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Genomic surveillance: How studying malaria parasite genes helps develop more effective treatments
In a classic evolutionary ‘arms race’ between pathogens and their human hosts, both sides develop arsenals of weapons. Our immune ...
How biotechnology over-regulation harms farmers, boosts food costs and fuels inflation
Recent months have been hellish for many American farmers and consumers who buy the food they produce. Many farms have ...
Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers
José Lopez didn't want to die, but the alternative — having a scalpel plunged through his abdominal wall to install ...
Cystic fibrosis chronicle: Why has the often-deadly CF gene not passed out of the human genome? And what new treatments are being developed?
Is cystic fibrosis (CF) a death sentence? It can be for many if it is not treated aggressively and early ...
What would happen if the male-determining Y chromosome continues to deteriorate and eventually disappears? The mole vole offers hope
The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the ...
Viewpoint: Precautionary near zero-risk standard is an impossible policy stifling European innovation and productivity. Here’s a safe alternative
After 30 years of squandering the peace dividend, deindustrialising economies and ignoring facts and evidence in their ideology-driven policies, Western ...
Prolonged grief disorder: 5-15% of bereaved people experience chronic mourning. What does that mean and how might it impact your health?
Every human being will experience grief at some point in their lives — it’s a fundamental human experience. “I think ...
‘Molding science to fit ideology’: 5 ways the Nazis leveraged pseudoscience to support fascism
Nazism is perhaps the most reprehensible ideology to which humans have ever subscribed. Its adherents started World War II and ...
Pesticides are critical to grow food, but concerns are widespread. Here’s why they are overblown – and a look at the cutting-edge RNA genetic tools designed to reduce health risks even more
For farmers to supply society with food, fiber and fuel they must battle pests. There is no magic, natural way ...
Women have a much higher risk of being killed by male partners. What explains this phenomenon?
One in four homicides is committed by an intimate partner. As many as four out of ten murders of women ...
Viewpoint: Britain faces decision of whether to break from Europe’s innovation-killing regulations on CRISPR new plant and animal breeding
MPs and Lords are preparing to debate the remaining stages of the Precision Breeding Bill at Westminster. While a handful ...
Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’
Air pollution harms our health in many ways; does it also encourage obesity? Farmers in India have access to two ...
Podcast: ‘Regenerative’ farming—a green fad; Gene-edited bacteria destroy tumors; Banana-flavored beer
So-called "regenerative" farming is gaining traction as a method of sustainable food production. Does it live up to the hype ...
Viewpoint: ‘Environmentalists are wrong on technological tweaks to agriculture’: How activists undermine their credibility — and society’s need for more climate-adaptive sustainable farming
Public concern about the environment has not always been part of the social conscience in North America. After all, European ...
Podcast: Science Facts and Fallacies host debates body positivity activists on ‘Dr. Phil’
Science Facts and Fallacies host Cameron English recently appeared on the Dr. Phil show to tackle an incendiary question: Has ...
Viewpoint: Once a biotechnology innovator, Mexico puts its farm economy in a vise, jeopardizes grain trade with the US with GMO and herbicide bans
In power since sweeping to victory in 2018, Mexican center-left president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has relentlessly targeted conventional ...
Viewpoint: Synthetic fertilizers in ideological crosshairs — Trade-offs between crop productivity and the environment
Want to fight climate change right now? Need to meet short-term targets for reductions in greenhouse gases? Then restrict applications of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Underrated and underfunded’: It’s time for Congress to increase support for biotechnology tools in next farm bill
Biotechnology and breeding are important ways to improve agriculture: they make the plants we grow and animals we raise for ...
Viewpoint: Reassessing the role of crop chemicals in setting an appropriate balance between productive agriculture and saving obscure species
Long-lasting herbicides don’t just control weeds. They also promote no-till farming, which helps farmers save costly tractor fuel and avoid ...
Podcast: Glyphosate causes seizures? Fatigue and brain toxins; Why parents turn ‘anti-vaxx’
Does the weedkiller glyphosate cause convulsions? A study published last week seemed to support that conclusion, but there's much more ...
Podcast: Time to quit ‘baby’ aspirin? Tobacco-industry science denial; Dutch farmer protests
Is it time to give up low-dose aspirin as a heart-attack prevention tool? New evidence suggests that the risks may ...
Glyphosate traces in breast milk? Weedkiller causes neurological disorders? How activists leverage social media to distort science and spread bogus health concerns
Shocking accounts of health dangers selectively presented from peer-reviewed science articles regularly invade Twitter. It’s the stock-in-trade of technology rejectionists ...
Categorizing people based on physical traits like hair texture feeds racial stereotypes. Genetics challenges that prejudice
In an undergraduate biological anthropology class in 2011, Tina Lasisi heard a lesson about human skin tones that would change the course ...
Dubious findings about food from the ‘Nutrition Researchers Guild’: How can we learn from this unscientific manipulation of statistics?
Are you confused about conflicting “research” findings on certain foods’ effects on our health? It would hardly be surprising. First, ...
How social justice activists are undermining New Zealand’s efforts to produce a sustainable farming system
Sometimes—often, even—a singular ideological focus can have unintended consequences in food production that actually undermines the social justice goals that ...
Exploring Prophet Muhammad’s Hebraic descent
In the West, the discussion on the origins of Prophet Muhammad has been the subject of limited studies. Traditional and ...
GLP Podcast: EPA’s political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review
The Biden Administration just overruled its own scientists at the EPA, mandating regulations that effectively ban the low-risk, effective weedkiller ...
