Tag: Biotechnology
‘Freezer burn’ is a serious problem – preventing ice recrystallization may...
Tong (Toni) Wang, University of Tennessee
Open the freezer door and there, way in the back, may be an...
The FDA’s big gamble on the new Alzheimer’s drug
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
The Food and Drug Administration set off a firestorm of debate when it...
Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna’s latest...
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
Biotech company Moderna, one of many organizations developing a vaccine for COVID-19, published results from an early-stage test of its experimental...
The Philippines has rated ‘Golden Rice’ safe, but farmers might not...
Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St Louis and Dominic Glover, Institute of Development Studies
“Golden Rice” is probably the world’s most hotly debated genetically...
Cultured meat seems gross? It’s much better than animal agriculture
Matti Wilks, Yale University
The world is in the grips of a food-tech revolution. One of the most compelling new developments is cultured meat, also...
Would you eat ‘meat’ from a lab? Consumers aren’t necessarily sold...
Walter Johnson, Arizona State University; Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University, and Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michigan State University
It’s been a busy summer for food-based biotech. The...
In growing algae for biofuels, it matters who used the water...
Sarah Loftus, Duke University
Health food enthusiasts routinely shell out over US$30 per pound for dried algae powder to whip up green smoothies to fuel...
Defining dual-use research: When scientific advances can both help and hurt...
Nicholas G. Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Aerin Commins, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Scientific research can change our lives for the better, but it...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
