Kevin Folta

Smokers appear to face a reduced risk of catching COVID-19. Does their deadly habit offer them some sort of protection? ...

Last week, high-profile anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva lectured (via zoom) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). Amplifying the ...

CRISPR-edited, hypertension-fighting tomatoes are on sale in Japan. Dishonestly marketed supplements continue to evade FDA regulation. Why doesn't the agency ...

A new book outlines a method for changing the minds of "science deniers"—and it's terrible, according to a particularly harsh ...

If women have a right to abortion, does everyone else have a right to refuse a COVID shot? The "my ...

Human-caused climate is occurring, but the science community may be amplifying the public's skepticism with failed "alarmist" predictions. Is kratom ...

Climate change could boost crop yields in the coming decades, but pests enabled by the warmer temperatures may offset whatever ...

Could a re-purposed smoking cessation drug help prevent the spread of SARS-COV-2? An increasing number of parents are screening their ...

Biotechnology has launched a revolution in food and medicine, but it can also be badly misused by governments and individual ...

A researcher who challenged the consensus on obesity was blasted in the media by her colleagues. Is this an example ...

Across social media they celebrated. The electronic victory laps commemorated Bayer’s decision to remove the herbicide Roundup from the residential ...

The Philippines has finally approved Golden Rice, and Greenpeace is doing everything in its power to reverse the decision. A ...

Cassava is a staple for one in ten people on earth, grown mostly by small farmers tending a few acres ...

Several trends become quickly apparent when we engage the public about agriculture. Consumers across the industrialized world reject concepts like ...

For all the ills it brought, the COVID-19 pandemic may have helped revolutionize genetic sequencing. Human gene editing is fraught ...

We have two major problems. Vanilla is mostly produced in a narrow set of unstable economies and the supply chains ...

Russia wants to produce allergen-free milk using animal gene editing. How much progress have they made? If you're bored with ...

If a pesticide is banned in Europe, does that make it dangerous? Nope. Typically an excellent source of science commentary, ...

Anti-GMO groups have hitched their wagons to the COVID lab-leak hypothesis to keep their flagging agenda alive. Organic produce is ...

Cell-based breast milk might offer mothers and babies a better alternative to expensive formula in the coming years. Alternative health ...

Mexico seems determined to ban the weedkiller glyphosate and biotech crops, drawing intense opposition from the country's farmers. Twitter bots ...

Many Hollywood celebrities have endorsed the bogus link between vaccines to autism. Looking back, it appears their influence has been ...

The discussion around Twitter bans is hot, mostly with regard to specific accounts that provide dangerous false information. But what ...

European food retailers want food made from CRISPR-edited crops labeled "GMO," which could prevent EU farmers from utilizing gene editing ...

A just-published study found that consuming two or more sugar-sweetened beverages in a day is linked to a doubling of ...

Coffee is nutritious, according to the latest study. Also, coffee is linked to cancer, new research finds. How do we ...

Early in the pandemic, Children's Health Defense—the anti-vaccine group headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—alleged that SARS-COV-2 was being used ...

A growing body of research shows that dozens of naturally transgenic plants have existed for millions of years, undermining a ...