Henry Miller
Why Paxlovid is far more effective than media coverage and some skeptics suggest
Paxlovid, the most widely prescribed drug to treat symptomatic COVID-19, has lately attracted a number of detractors. However, Paxlovid has ...
Viewpoint: ‘Discrimination against new crops’: India speeds up approval process for gene-edited crops — but still disadvantages safe GMOs
The Indian government exempted crops with certain kinds of genetic modifications introduced by genome editing from cumbersome and time-consuming regulations previously imposed ...
Viewpoint: India’s ‘foreign DNA’ delusion — Why the country needs to modernize genetically modified crop regulations
India has a long and dubious record of regulating genetically altered crops for agriculture. While the nation began at the ...
Should COVID sufferers avoid Paxlovid because of symptom rebound reports?
Paxlovid is an oral two-drug combination regimen that treats COVID-19. One drug is nirmatrelvir, an antiviral, while the second, ritonavir, ...
Why this is no time to ease up on efforts to contain COVID-19
Many of us in the medical community feel as though we’re having one of those dreams in which we’re shouting ...
Public trust, safety, and genetic engineering
Although the public is almost completely unaware, today, more than three-quarters of all food crops have been directly and dramatically ...
What are acetogens? And how could synthetic biology turn oil, coal and other fossil fuels into green, carbon-negative chemicals?
When most people hear about oil, as in petroleum, they think of what gets refined to produce gasoline. But it’s ...
Viewpoint: Organic farming best addresses climate change? Why the popular consensus is wrong—and why GE crops should be agriculture’s future
Popular wisdom is often wrong. Consider, for example, how it views organic agriculture, which has grown to a $48 billion a ...
Government regulations block biotechnology solutions to mitigate Florida citrus crop frost damage
To counter a rare freeze, Florida’s farmers have to reach deep into archaic solutions – tarps, smudge pots, irrigation, bonfires ...
What science says about the future of COVID-19
With pandemic fatigue becoming more intense, there is increasing speculation about when the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, might become ...
Viewpoint: Essential to feeding the world, synthetic fertilizers have negative environmental impacts. Here’s how genetic engineering can change that
Much of the world is preoccupied with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but there are other global challenges, including climate change, ...
Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive
Gene editing, which allows precise edits to the genome, has been widely used for a variety of applications in laboratories ...
Viewpoint: ‘The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment’ — The cowardly, useless stupidity behind the new genetic modification law
It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary ...
Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them
Following the recent COP26 séance in Glasgow, climate change issues remain prominent for governments and the public. Agricultural practices have ...
Are rapid-result antigen tests an unappreciated long-range tool to tame COVID?
An overwhelming consensus on any topic is very rare these days. But many Americans, whatever their political leanings, seem to ...
How did Sri Lanka’s organic-only debacle begin? Simple — ‘uninformed, flawed decisions based on wishful thinking’
All of us have had the experience of learning things, as the saying goes, “the hard way.” That phenomenon has ...
‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’
If you keep up with the news in the mainstream media, you might think it’s time to ditch the flyswatter ...
Will the Biden Administration ‘follow the science’ on agricultural biotechnology regulatory reform?
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the US Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, a blueprint for federal ...
Viewpoint: After years of misreporting, NY Times embraces safety and efficacy of GMOs — but still stumbles on nuance and key facts
Genetically engineered (GE) crops, which have been commercially available for 25 years, have been widely misunderstood and under-appreciated, especially by ...
AquaBounty saga: The troubling story of why it took 25 years and $100 million to bring a fast-growing, sustainable genetically-engineered fish to market
The first U.S. sales of the AquAdvantage salmon, a faster‐ growing, genetically engineered fish, have finally begun. The farmed fish ...
COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises
There is continuing confusion, and even consternation, over what seem to be disparate policies, recommendations and mandates emerging in response ...
Viewpoint: Let’s stop the fear mongering in food labeling
Between his former and current terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack in a 2019 opinion piece called for a ...
Viewpoint: How proposed legislation billed to ‘save the bees’ will actually harm them — and the economy
The myth about endangered, disappearing honeybees lives on — with potentially dire implications. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, just ...
‘Minimizing the probability of adverse outcomes’ is driving the ever-changing, sometimes conflicting recommendations on mask wearing
There is increasing confusion, and even consternation, over what seem to be disparate policies, recommendations, and mandates emerging in response ...
Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture
Stanford, which consistently ranks among the top U.S. colleges and universities, is one of the great research institutions in the ...
Viewpoint: Soon-to-be-required bioengineered food label is ‘in the worst traditions of government meddling’
A very bad regulation is coming. Here's the short of it. In 2016 Congress passed the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure ...
Does DNA ‘determine’ our health? The way you live your life can significantly modulate the effects of our genetic endowment
The study of genetics has always been an attempt to understand our biologically determined fate. Many of us know of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Killer petunias’? The shameful story of the USDA’s ‘unscientific, innovation-stifling’ process for regulating genetically-engineered flowers
Now that vivid orange, red, and purple genetically engineered petunias are approved for distribution to plant nurseries, it’s time for ...