RaxX protein in disease-causing bacteria helps rice create defense
A protein called RaxX may help create more disease-resistant rice varieties and block microbial infections in both plants and animals. Continue reading → The post RaxX protein in disease-causing...
View ArticleNo excuses to be against science now: Monsanto patent expires
What excuse to be anti-science will environmental groups use now that they can no longer claim it's about corporations? Monsanto's early patents on GMOs have started to expire. Continue reading → The...
View ArticleAre GMOs Safe? A NEJM Opinion Piece Seeks To Cast Doubt
A bizarre, rambling diatribe against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading → The post Are GMOs Safe? A NEJM Opinion Piece...
View ArticleInnate: Simplot genetically engineered potato gets USDA nod for deregulation
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced that as of September 2, 2015, publication of the Federal Register notice announcing the...
View ArticleOver Bt Spraying, Anti-GMO Folks Undone by Own Argument
It's OK to eat bacterial proteins sprayed on organic crops, but dangerous to have the plants produce the same proteins, or so say the off-balanced, anti-GMO activists. But as an article in the...
View ArticleSaving Crops with GM Moths, Instead of Pesticides
An innovative approach to quelling the scourge of diamondback moths -- resistant to many pesticides and costing billions globally per year -- is genetic modification. Smaller studies are proving to be...
View ArticleCow Virus-Breast Cancer Study Has Some Real Meat
It's known that certain viruses cause cancer. Time to add another to the list? A preliminary study implicates a viral infection in the formation of breast cancer. Yes, it's very early in the process,...
View ArticleGroundbreaking Sickle Cell Study Uses Stem Cells with Adults
Sickle-cell disease is a painful, life-shortening, debilitating, inherited disease of hemoglobin in red blood cells, affecting persons of African descent. Children had been cured with bone marrow/stem...
View ArticleA Call for More Expansive Breast Cancer Testing
A recent New York Times op-ed called for universal testing for the BRCA genes among women of Jewish descent, whose ancestry is from eastern Europe. The frighteningly high rate of BRCA positivity and...
View ArticleDebunking the Myth of Treating Mild Fevers
When a mild fever strikes healthy kids or adults, that small temperature rise is usually followed with a move towards the medicine cabinet. But there's a broad body of research that indicates that...
View ArticleElephants Stomp Cancer, But Humans Unlikely to Benefit
A study of elephants finds these massive animals get cancer at a far lower rate than humans. Researchers also found the reason: they have an astronomical number of copies of a vital gene. The news is...
View ArticleRaxX protein in disease-causing bacteria helps rice create defense
A protein called RaxX may help create more disease-resistant rice varieties and block microbial infections in both plants and animals. Continue reading → The post RaxX protein in disease-causing...
View ArticleCRISPR May Redefine What it Means To Be GMO
The genome editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing many fields in biology with its precision and simplicity. Here's what you need to know. Continue reading → The post CRISPR May Redefine...
View ArticleScientists Make Zombie Virus To Help Fight Cancer
Researchers brought a virus back from the dead...a zombie virus if you will, in order to improve gene therapy. Continue reading → The post Scientists Make Zombie Virus To Help Fight Cancer appeared...
View ArticleAre Humans Who Take GMO Insulin FrankenPeople?
Anti-science activists understand literature as a little as they understand genetics: Frankenstein's monster was a hybrid, not a GMO. Continue reading → The post Are Humans Who Take GMO Insulin...
View ArticleCRISPR Genome Editing Provides More Specifics
Two new studies, one published in Science and the other in Nature, by one of the pioneers of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique show the power and specificity of the genome-editing technique. Continue reading →...
View Article20 Years Later, GM AquAdvantage Salmon Approved
Genetically modified salmon has finally gotten approval from the FDA, making it the first GM animal in the United States to be cleared for human consumption. But what does it mean for you? A whole lot...
View ArticleChina Uses CRISPR To Create Hulked-Out Animals
Chinese scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing tools that have created animals with more muscle mass and hair. These experiments have caused major debates and most people want to know what’s next?...
View ArticleYour Turkey May Be Organic, But It’s Not Natural
Sorry grocery shoppers, but all of today's domestic turkeys -- even the ones labeled "organic" -- are actually GMOs. Years of artificial selection, by optimizing genetic traits, have made the genome of...
View ArticleGiving Thanks To Turkasaurus
Your Thanksgiving turkey is a direct descendent of the dinosaur. Scientists have found that the turkey and the chicken have undergone the fewest genetic changes as compared with other birds to their...
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