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Groundbreaking pineapple-flavored spray vaccine could prevent urinary tract infections for up to 9 years
A breakthrough almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for billions of women who suffer from urinary tract ...
‘Race’, anti-racism and biology
Using biology to determine the racial ancestry of human remains is racist. Except when it’s done in the name of ...
Curious what chickens cluck about? AI is decoding the language of poultry
Understanding chickens' vocalizations can transform our approach to poultry farming, enhancing their welfare and quality of life ...
False dawn or new dawn for genetically engineered crops in the European Union?
It's going to be a long and difficult journey before the fate of the European crop biotechnology reform bill passed ...
Five reasons why the anti-biotech movement is in retreat
The pro-science community has recently chalked up several important wins in Europe. First, on January 24, the powerful environment committee ...
Viewpoint: Exploiting chemophobia—Environmental Working Groups’s manufactured study claiming oat cereal contains dangerous pesticides designed to manipulate the media
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products ...
Probiotics are ‘enticing target’ for gene editing — but is CRISPR up for the challenge?
Every morning I pop a Pearl probiotic. I try hard not to drop it, for the tiny, slippery yellow sphere ...
Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology opponents are losing their war against genetic engineering but the battle for science is not yet won
It was not so long ago that the strident opponents of agricultural biotechnology were dictating the narrative over sustainable crops ...
Viewpoint: What’s the science (if any) behind the regenerative agriculture movement?
As interest in regenerative agriculture reaches fever pitch across the value chain, NIAB is preparing the ground for a major ...
Viewpoint: As concerns about plastic pollution in the ocean mount, there is a yet untapped solution — genetically-engineered bacteria that “eat” plastic. Will activists and the government block it?
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ...
How RFK, Jr.’s science disinformation machine rolls on despite so many debunking articles (like this one)
The presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a reminder of the insidious imbalance of conspiracy theories: They are always ...
Viewpoint: Activists shift tactics on glyphosate, attacking independent European science-oversight agencies that have unanimously found the herbicide safe
Glyphosate ate the world! Every single day another serious disease, from all types of cancer to Parkinson’s, is attributed to ...
Headlines claim that almost half of all drinking water contains high-levels of ‘dangerous’ PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. What does the science say?
The headline “New Study Finds PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water from 45% of Faucets Across US” led many news ...
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, as the Israel-Hamas War rages, a DNA data leak of Jewish 23andMe customers raises fears of modern-day Jewish yellow badges
Tonight is the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9 and 10, 1938, Storm Troopers, ...
Viewpoint: Scientific American has become a ’scientific sewer’, promoting ideological rubbish on the evolution of male-female differences, claims University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne
I read this new article in Scientific American claiming that women constituted a high proportion of hunters in early hunter-gatherer ...
Viewpoint: 15 explanations for why activists lie and try to scare people about ‘killer’ chemicals, genetically engineered crops and nuclear energy
We always hear NGOs saying that we cannot trust industry, that we have to exclude industry evidence or that industry ...
Open letter to New York Governor Hochul: ‘The only thing the Birds and Bees Protection Act would protect are seed corn maggots’
Farmers and their allies in New York State are almost unanimous in their opposition to legislation that would sharply limit ...
Viewpoint: As the BBC spews organic farming propaganda, the world’s poor suffer
How many people around the world are currently living in poverty? The World Bank reports that a little over 9%, ...
‘Museum of Agriculture’? Could that be the fate of European farming if Greenpeace and other environmental activists succeed in blocking deregulation of crop gene editing?
The war between science and anti-crop biotechnology advocacy groups has escalated since the summer release of the European Commission Report ...
Mask up again? As COVID cases rise, look to science and not pundits
I can’t believe we’re having this discussion in September 2023, just as the fall respiratory virus season commences, but the ...
First synthetic human embryo to live past 14 days was made from stem cells
A Cambridge University scientist says her research lab has used stem cells to create a human embryo that developed past ...
Viewpoint: How to restore public trust and regulatory fairness in the face of aggressive, coordinated disinformation efforts by anti-technology environmental activists
During my lifetime, Western societies have enjoyed innovations that have immensely improved public health and the quality of life as ...
Viewpoint: Anti-agrobiotech activists claim European farmers who support relaxing the EU’s de facto ban on cultivating GMO and gene-edited crops are dupes of Big Ag. Here are the facts
Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified ...
Why do lab studies suggest neonicotinoid pesticides can harm bees, while field research suggests they have minimal environmental impact?
Pollinators play a crucial role in the production of food crops. While many crops are open pollinated, meaning they don’t ...
Debunking Dunning-Kruger: It’s widely believed that the less you know, the more you think you know. Does everyone think they’re better than average?
John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, “If you are really, really stupid, then ...
Global food production has increased 390 percent since 1960. Here’s how farmers have done it.
The use of modern seed genetics (which includes genetically modified (GM) crops, chemical and fertilizer use) greatly contributes to improved ...
Synthetic human embryos made from stem cells? Research into artificial monkey embryos leads the way
In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited ...
