Kevin Folta

Rapid advances in biotechnology could help prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes deaths every year. Growing drugs in GMO plants ...

In an effort to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, the USDA has revamped its biotech crop rules, sparking a ...

As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...

While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...

The only way to truly end the novel coronavirus pandemic is to develop an effective vaccine. And while there are ...

We finally have a drug to treat COVID-19 in remdesivir, but how well does it work? Anti-GMO activists have blamed ...

Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution saved an estimated billion people from starvation, but critics contend his work brought severe environmental and ...

Cattle provide meat, milk and hide products to people all over the world, and are used as work animals for ...

A dearth of coronavirus tests has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and elsewhere, but a newly FDA-approved test ...

While political leaders and scientists speculate that coronavirus is beginning to loosen its grip on the world, hospitals are considering ...

As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...

A meta-analysis allows researchers to compile data from many smaller studies and, hopefully, find more conclusive answers to critical public ...

As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...

The novel coronavirus is not just "the flu," contrary to what you may have read on social media. There may ...

Congenital eye disorders can rob children of their eyesight at a young age and severely diminish their quality of life ...

Our inability to rapidly detect the novel coronavirus has made it difficult to properly combat COVID-19 ...

SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus first detected in China in January, is emerging as a significant threat, with just under 128,000 ...

As genetic engineering reshapes intimate aspects of our lives, is the public on board? ...

Omega-3 fatty acids are critical to human health. Among their many benefits, these oils can help preserve eye and brain ...

Kevin Folta and Cameron English break down four of the latest headlines from the world of genetics and biotech ...

Researchers hope to exploit this viral countermeasure to regulate gene editing and minimize unintended mutations during the editing process ...

To what degree are nations deploying these revolutionary new tools? ...

Since the millennium rolled over 20 years ago, the pace of genetic discovery has only accelerated. Nobody could have predicted ...

Capua now uses her harrowing experience to educate policymakers and law enforcement about science ...

Given Chipotle's past cozy relationship with organic food marketers, this seems more like a marketing stunt ...

Few academics eagerly engage the public on controversial scientific topics, content to quietly focus on their research. Agricultural economist and ...

For all the life-saving pharmaceuticals, surgeries and devices it provides, modern medicine is still rather imprecise. Chemotherapy drugs, for instance, ...

In the early 20th century, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch revolutionized agriculture. The two German chemists developed a technique, now ...