Declining SIDS is More Evidence Vaccines are Safe
A new study in the journal Pediatrics shows that the Back-to-Sleep campaign, designed to reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is working. And as it turns out, the effort is also producing even more...
View ArticleGM Chickens: Where Big Pharma Meets Big Farm
The FDA has approved another GM animal. But unlike AquaBounty's GM salmon approved less than a month ago, nobody will be eating this one. These modified chickens will produce a drug in their egg...
View ArticleBiology Seeks to ‘Drive’ Out Mosquitos, Malaria
Roughly 200 million people contract the malarial parasite annually, and in 2013 malaria was the cause of 500,000 deaths worldwide. According to a recent study, a new genetic engineering technique is...
View ArticleTom Brady: The Reason Designer Babies Won’t Exist
Could a genetic engineer create a genome for the next Tom Brady in vitro? No, because there is no "QB intelligence" gene or "athletic anticipation" gene that a biologist could edit into an embryo, like...
View ArticleStar Wars Science: How To Make A Stormtrooper
U.S. soldiers are the best in the world but how close are we to choosing the very best and cloning him and then having an army of him lose to a farmer from the desert? Well, not close on the last part,...
View ArticleCancer Causation: Environment, Not Bad Luck, Study Says
A new study in Nature used mathematical/analytical tools to show that three quarters of cancers are likely caused by environmental exposures, rather than chance or bad luck. Avoiding known causes of...
View ArticleProgress on Gene Modification Rx for Muscular Dystrophy
Three independently-working groups have developed an effective, albeit temporary, therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to delete the defective gene and replace it with a functional gene. Although...
View ArticleGenetic Link Found for Several Common Cancers
A very large study of Nordic twins published recently in JAMA found that there's a significant link between their genetic makeup and their risk of getting certain cancers, with the strongest links...
View ArticleGM Foods: Biotech Is Quietly Winning The War
According to guest writer Vivian Moses, we can trace the anti-GM movement to two things: increasing disillusion as a result of the progress of left-wing ideologies, and a growing awareness of...
View ArticleAdding ‘Kill Switches’ to Improve Perception Of GM Safety
People tend to fear what they don't understand, and cannot control. And that adds to the apprehension people have when evaluating the safety of food produced using genetically modified organisms. But...
View ArticleDeclaring War on the World’s Most Dangerous Creature
The mosquitoes causing all the headaches these days are not key pollinators, or any sort of indicator species. They are simply pests, and 3,400 other mosquito species could fill the ecological gap just...
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