vaccine
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 ...
COVID vaccine ‘bio-factories’: Step-by-step look at how GMO tobacco plants could help end the pandemic
Two biotech companies are using the tobacco plant, Nicotiana benthamiana, as bio-factories to produce a key protein from the coronavirus ...
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 ...
