Posted on Mar 22, 2022 | Comments Off on Food Is Essential And Fertilizer Is Expensive; A New RNA Sequencing Study May Improve Both
When a giant chunk of the work force is told to stay home, and even paid to do it, the results can be felt for years. The US is facing supply chain issues due to conflicting stances like politicians demanding prices be kept low while workers must be paid more. Few areas have felt the pinch like agriculture. Food is simultaneously a strategic resource, a commodity, a values issue, and a...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2021 | Comments Off on This Malaria Preventing Mosquito Is Not A GMO But Is A Science Boost For Nature – Will Activists Want To Block It?
Mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti don't have any value ecologically. If Thanos snapped them out of existence tomorrow there is nothing they do that won't immediately be taken up by 3,000 other mosquito species, not to mention 25,000 bee species when it comes to pollination.The only thing they are great at is killing people; by being a leading source of vector-borne dengue disease. Not far behind is...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2021 | Comments Off on This Malaria Preventing Mosquito Is Not A GMO But Is A Science Boost For Nature – Will Activists Want To Block It?
Mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti don't have any value ecologically. If Thanos snapped them out of existence tomorrow there is nothing they do that won't immediately be taken up by 3,000 other mosquito species, not to mention 25,000 bee species when it comes to pollination.The only thing they are great at is killing people; by being a leading source of vector-borne dengue disease. Not far behind is...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Genome-Wide Association Analysis May Mean More Accurate Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease
Have you been told you have a greater risk of heart disease based on family history? What does that even mean?read more
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Posted on Jul 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Confluence Of Hype: In Mice, A Genetic Change Prevents A Disease That Doesn’t Exist
In modern American culture, two exploratory fields in science compete to scare the public or suggest the promise of miracle cures; epidemiology and studies in mice.read more
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Posted on Jun 20, 2019 | Comments Off on GROs – Genetically Rescued Organisms – Will Save Plant Species At Risk
In today's Wall Street Journal my article Science Saves an Old Chestnut discusses the potential benefit of President Trump's executive order requiring USDA, FDA, and EPA to modernize when it comes to biotechnology approval. They have to consider actual risk instead of treating every product like a new invention. They don't make flowers go through tens of millions of dollars and 20 years of...
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