China’s ‘food and mouth disease’ threatens a crisis of global consequence
China’s insatiable appetite for exotic and laboratory-treated animals has repeatedly served as the breeding ground for ...
United Therapeutics scores FDA go-ahead for pig organ transplant clinical trial
United Therapeutics has scored a regulatory green light to start clinical trials for its genetically modified pig kidneys to ...
Scientists Just Took a Major Step Towards Creating Synthetic Life
This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.
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Expected ban on Mexican GM corn fetches praise — and worry over imports
Mexico’s two legislative houses are expected to approve an amendment that will prohibit the cultivation of transgenic corn in ...
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Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.
Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts ...
How to Decode the Tiny Stickers on Grocery Store Fruits and Vegetables
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the adhesives used on these stickers and has deemed ...
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'Ancient' part of the brain tells you when to stop eating, study suggests
Neurons found in one of the oldest regions of the brain may control when we stop eating a meal, new research in mice hints.
Unhealthy diet may speed up biological aging, even in young adults
A new study suggests that diets high in fast food, processed red meat, and soda but low in fruits and vegetables may be ...
More rice, less gas: Chinese and Swedish scientists create hybrid to cut methane emissions
Researchers hope to register their rice in China for farmers and are working with firms to add oxantel to fertilisers ...
2seventy bio Reports Preliminary* Full-Year U.S. Abecma Sales and Select Financial Results
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 06, 2025--2seventy bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSVT) today provided full-year Abecma® (idecabtagene ...
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Seeds of Spring events organized to promote growing food from seed
A grass-roots way to give and get seeds that grow food, medicine and pollinator plants. There is no money exchanged — only ...
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What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list. The 2025 edition will be published in January. Here’s what won’t be on it. AI advances ...