Richard Roberts
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‘Tip-of-the-tongue’ phenomenon: Does it signal cognitive decline and dementia?
[A] person is certain she knows the word she is searching for. It may seem as if the AWOL term ...
Do bilinguals have a lower risk of developing dementia?
If the benefits of being bilingual spill over to other aspects of cognition, then we would expect to see a ...
Video: Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts recruits young scientists to counter Greenpeace misinformation about ‘failure’ of nutritionally enhanced Golden Rice, GMOs
When Monsanto first tried to introduce GMO seeds into Europe there was a backlash by the Green parties and their ...
Nobel laureate Sir Richard Roberts: Uganda will remain trapped by food poverty if its leaders bow to anti-biotech activists
One of the main sources of nutrition for poor Ugandans, bananas, is on the verge of being wiped out by ...
How Nobel Laureate scientist Sir Richard Roberts became one of the world’s foremost advocates for GMOs
You’re a prominent voice on another issue: in the movement to allow access to genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in ...
Podcast: Nobel laureates mobilize against Greenpeace to reverse campaign to block vitamin-enhanced Golden Rice
Sir Richard Roberts: Nobel laureates must speak out activists like Greenpeace falsely claim GMOs pose unique health or ecological dangers ...
Nobel laureate in medicine: GMOs are ‘key tool’ to address global hunger
Each year several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed ...
