vaccine
Podcast: How do COVID vaccines work? CRISPR kills cancer; Danish study debunks mask mandates?
The leading COVID-19 vaccines are RNA-based immunizations and the first of their kind. How do they work, and are they ...
Podcast: One couple’s journey to vaccine skepticism; Partisan COVID science; Neophobia and GMOs
How do well-meaning, educated parents become vaccine skeptics? One hypothetical couple's journey may shed light on the process. Some scientists ...
Podcast: Some vaccine skeptics aren’t science deniers; Animal-free ice cream; Plant burgers are ‘meat’?
If you reject vaccines, you're a science denier! Not necessarily. Some people may have legitimate reasons to be skeptical. Scientists ...
African biotechnology advance: Vaccine breakthrough could prevent ‘catastrophic’ tick-borne diseases that cost farmers $19B annually
Livestock breeding is expected to be one of the engines of economic growth in Africa as it struggles to recover ...
Viewpoint: Uganda battles anti-GMO, anti-vaccine coalition agitating against COVID-19 immunization
A handful of activist groups are now working in tandem to undermine Uganda’s plans to inoculate its population against the ...
Final weeks to approval: NIH’s Anthony Fauci and FDA’s Peter Marks on what’s ahead before we can expect a safe COVID vaccine
As tens of thousands of people participate in phase 3 clinical trials on COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the focus is turning ...
Spillover effect: Could GMO disinformation shake public trust in other scientific innovations?
In 2016, the World Economic Forum listed online digital misinformation as one of the leading threats to modern societies. Campaigns ...
Podcast: Greenpeace CRISPR study debunked; Public accepts gene-edited babies? Cancer vaccine progress
A Greenpeace-funded study alleges that gene-edited crops can be detected and should therefore be regulated as "GMOs." However, experts say ...
Podcast: Neuralink brain chips; Flu vaccines during COVID; US farm system unraveling?
Elon Musk's company Neuralink recently debuted its brain implant in pigs, pushing us a little closer to integrating humans and ...
COVID pandemic exposes Africa’s need for long-term solutions to Lassa fever and other neglected tropical diseases
Spread by food contaminated by the feces or urine of disease-carrying rodents and endemic to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and ...
Podcast: Arguing with vaccine skeptics works; Ban GMO labels? Agroecology keeps Africa poor
Contrary to popular belief, arguing with anti-science activists on social media helps combat the spread of misinformation. Organic food groups ...
Viewpoint: How to constructively engage on social media with those who post anti-GMO and anti-vax conspiracies
The other day, a tantalizing question appeared in my Twitter feed: “If you were writing a book about 2020, what ...
Vaccine ‘durability’: COVID-19 immunizations coming soon but will they last?
As the days unfold with a seeming sameness in this odd summer of the pandemic, news of vaccine clinical trials ...
Podcast: Europe suspends GMO rules to speed COVID vaccine; genes and coronavirus; Keto diet fights Alzheimer’s?
Europe has suspended some of its oppressive GMO regulations to speed development of a COVID-19 vaccine, drawing accusations of hypocrisy ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups push ‘natural’ COVID cures, deny pandemic-fighting biotech solutions
One of the primary arguments hurled at proponents of genetic engineering is that the crops, medicines and vaccines produced using ...
COVID-19 vaccine development efforts focusing on protecting the elderly
Older adults are especially susceptible to infection by the virus, and at higher risk of falling critically ill and dying, ...
Genetic engineering key to developing COVID-19 vaccine
Scientists throughout the world are engaged in a herculean effort to develop a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus that has ...
‘Vaccine hesitancy scale’: Parents are especially suspicious of flu shots, study finds
About 1 in 15 US parents (6.1%) is hesitant about routine childhood vaccines, and more than 1 in 4 (26%) ...
Older vaccines for polio and tuberculosis could ‘rev up’ the body’s immune system to counter COVID-19
Two tried-and-true vaccines — a century-old inoculation against tuberculosis and a decades-old polio vaccine once given as a sugar cube ...
Viewpoint: Beware a fraudulent ‘October vaccine surprise’ as Trump maneuvers to win re-election
Oct. 23, 2020, 9 a.m., with 10 days before the election, Fox New releases a poll showing President Trump trailing ...
Top 5 most promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates
More than 100 vaccine efforts are currently underway in the global push to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the ...
With a COVID-19 vaccine only a distant possibility, a HIV containment-like strategy could be best option
Though many people are pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine, another option is available: preventive treatment. At a Senate ...
Novavax launches human clinical trial on coronavirus vaccine in Australia
A U.S. biotechnology company began injecting a coronavirus vaccine candidate into people in Australia on Tuesday [May 26] with hopes ...
British American Tobacco poised to begin late June trials for COVID-19 vaccine derived from tobacco plants
An experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by cigarette maker British American Tobacco Plc is poised to begin testing in humans. Pre-clinical ...
Moderna announces July clinical trials after experimental coronavirus vaccine shows promising early results
Moderna, the Massachusetts biotechnology company behind a leading effort to create a coronavirus vaccine, announced promising early results from its ...
‘Operation warp speed’ hopes to turbocharge US quest for a coronavirus vaccine
Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a U.S ...
Podcast: COVID-19 a global communist plot? Glyphosate didn’t cause the pandemic. Time to embrace agricultural biotechnology.
While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...
First we need a coronavirus vaccine—Then figure out how to produce 300 million doses
In the midst of national shortages of testing swabs and protective gear, some medical suppliers and health policy experts are ...
