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Plant pests and disease have a massive global impact, causing the loss of 20–40% of crop production and costing over USD 220 billion. These losses can threaten food security, contribute to climate change, and create financial burdens on farmers.

For nearly three decades, Yvonne “Missy” Woods was Colorado’s star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test DNA evidence in the state’s most baffling crimes. … Then, in November, Woods abruptly resigned. The same day, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said it had discovered anomalies in her work during an internal review … Read more

| | May 9, 2024

Many of us have come to expect that our bodies and minds will deteriorate in our final years—that we may die feeble, either dependent or alone. Paradoxically, this outcome is a kind of success. For most of history, humans didn’t live long enough to confront the ailments of old age.

Something stinks in the world of cheese, but this time it’s not the product – it’s the sour grapes emanating from the dairy industry as they try in vain to curdle the rise of a plant-based upstart that’s threatening to spoil their future.

A new study on whether plant-based meat alternatives have cardiometabolic health benefits has led to a condemnation of vegan food as unhealthy.

| | May 9, 2024

Synthetic biology is a remarkable set of technologies that can change our world forever. It’s received a lot of hype for the amazing healthcare, environmental, and other advances it is enabling. But what about where health—for us and our planet—arguably begins: our food and how we get it?

The spectrum of information that can be obtained by prenatal testing is wide and rapidly increasing. Many mutations, or “abnormalities,” are inconsequential, while others are significant.

| | May 8, 2024

Interspecies competition in ancient humans saw an evolutionary trend that is the complete opposite of almost all other vertebrates, according to a new study.

| | May 8, 2024

God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have a regular baby or have an Orchid baby.

Last year was called the year of Ozempic, though it was also a year of Ozempic backlash and Ozempic shortages, which could persist for years. Even so, we appear very far from a peak for GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Wegovy, which are powered by a molecule called semaglutide, and Mounjaro, which uses its cousin tirzepatide. It seems possible to imagine a future in which almost everyone is taking some variety of GLP-1 drug, and with a pretty good reason to do so.

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