Yasmin Tayag
What would our diet consist of if we restricted our eating to American-produced food
The notion that the country could produce all of its food domestically is nice—even admirable. An America First food system ...
Viewpoint: Trump is pushing ‘America FIrst’ across policy sectors including food and farming. Why that’s not a great idea
An America First food system would promote eating seasonally and locally, supporting more small farmers in the process. But that ...
Viewpoint: Avian flu is ‘wreaking havoc on poultry farms and spreading among cattle herds.’ Could it become a full-blown pandemic in humans?
The current strain of bird flu, known as “highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1" is like a “super virus” in its ...
Decline of dairy? Bird flu found in milk another factor in plummeting milk popularity
Milk is defined by its percentages: nonfat, 2 percent, whole. Now there is a different kind of milk percentage to ...
How concerned should vaccinated people be about spreading COVID?
In the early days of vaccine bliss, many Americans had thought that the shots were a ticket to normalcy—and at ...
Create a fetus without an egg or sperm? Researchers have done it with mice
Reproduction used to be a simple thing: two parents, one egg, one sperm, one embryo, one baby. But on [October ...
3 ‘biomarkers’ linked to male sexual orientation in study
The search for the “gay gene” is rooted in a fraught question: Does homosexuality have a biological basis? The reasons ...
Racists are wrong: Both light and dark skin originated in Africa
[L]ong-held racist assumptions based on skin color have been scientifically proven wrong, according to a groundbreaking new study in the ...
‘Alphabet of life’ expanded by 2 synthetic letters, may help make organisms ‘Earth has never seen’
Until very recently, life on Earth was dictated by strings of just four letters: G, A, T, and C...Deciphering nature’s ...
Should we include robotic limbs and A.I. when talking about evolution?
Scientists have a hard time deciding what Homo Futurus might look like. Will our evolutionary descendants resemble us? Will they be ...
Despite what you may have read, there’s no ‘gay gene’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists presenting at the ...
Gene edited allergy-free peanuts on horizon but GMO fears may block arrival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While you won’t find ...