Kate Kelland
Will approved vaccines stop the new South African COVID strain? Doubts emerge
Both Britain and South Africa have detected new, more transmissible variants of the COVID-19-causing virus in recent weeks that have ...
What’s behind mask wearing rejectionism: Individualism vs collectivism
Rule-breaking is not a new phenomenon, but behavioural scientists say it is being exacerbated in the coronavirus pandemic by cultural, ...
Battling malaria: Bill Gates backs gene editing of mosquitoes, acknowledges ethical concerns
Gene-editing technologies that alter mosquitoes’ DNA could prove critical in the fight against malaria, Bill Gates said on [April 18], ...
WHO’s IARC cancer agency under fire for ‘underplaying’ risks of benzene
Emails from its own scientists show the International Agency for Research on Cancer failed to comprehensively review evidence on human ...
MERS treatment could come from genetically engineered cows
Human antibodies made in genetically engineered cows have proved safe in an early stage clinical trial...and could be developed into ...
US House science committee warns IARC it ‘may reconsider taxpayer funding’
U.S. congressional committee members warned on Friday [Dec. 8] that Washington’s funding of the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency ...
Insecticide resistance threatens to derail malaria control in Africa
The largest genetic study of mosquitoes has found their ability to resist insecticides is evolving rapidly and spreading across Africa, ...
Large long-term farm study finds no statistically significant cancer link to glyphosate herbicide
A large long-term study on the use of the big-selling weedkiller glyphosate by agricultural workers in the United States has ...
Two US Congressional committees ask IARC cancer agency to testify, citing ‘scientific integrity’ concerns
Two influential U.S. Congressmen have asked the World Health Organization’s cancer agency to get ready to testify about its work ...
IARC bombshell: WHO cancer agency ‘edited out’ draft findings glyphosate non-carcinogenic
The World Health Organization's cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate ...
Did the National Cancer Institute withhold data showing no links between glyphosate and cancer?
The chairman of a congressional committee has asked the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explain why its National ...
IARC glyphosate bombshell: Scientist who lead review of herbicide withheld data showing no cancer link
When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on ...
EU food safety chief: Critics of glyphosate safety finding are ‘playing politics’, undermining science
Politicians who attack the EU agency that ruled the weedkiller glyphosate probably does not cause cancer are in danger of ...
New EU independent herbicide glyphosate study shows no toxic effects or genetic changes
Results of a new animal study into possible health risks of the weedkiller glyphosate will be published in time to ...
WHO’s cancer agency claims “transparency”, moves to block glyphosate Freedom of Information requests
The World Health Organization's cancer agency [IARC]--which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens--advised academic experts ... who worked ...
Long-term study suggests small link between neonicotinoids, wild bee declines
Wild bees that forage from oilseed rape crops treated with. . . neonicotinoids are more likely to undergo long-term population ...
Contradicting IARC, World Health Organization says glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The pesticide glyphosate. ...
Investigation: Scientists say IARC’s cancer classifications on chemicals, food scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over four decades, a ...
GM mosquitoes, bacteria get WHO backing to fight Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization ...
Ongoing lack of MERS vaccine inexcusable as virus spreads in South Korea
Three years after the mysterious MERS virus first emerged in humans, scientists and drugmakers say there is no excuse for ...
Papua New Guinea community shows genetic resistance to mad cow, other brain conditions
Research involving a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea is helping scientists better understand mad cow disease and other so-called prion ...
Typhoid fever threat growing as antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreads
An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" strain of typhoid fever has spread globally, driven by a single family of the bacteria, called H58, ...
Ebola crisis raises dilemma over releasing vaccines without usual evaluation
Normally it takes years to prove a new vaccine is both safe and effective before it can be used in ...
GM mosquitoes produce only male offspring, eliminating entire populations in six generations
Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosquitoes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh ...
UK panel supports first genetically modified human embryos
A British expert scientific panel gave its backing on Tuesday to potential new 3-way fertility treatments that would for the ...
Environment, genes equally at play in autism
Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to ...
British scientists urge Europe to revamp GMO regulation
Europe’s stringent regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops has no rational basis and should be revamped to allow countries who ...
Smartphone game seeks to cure cancer
Crowd-sourcing and video games come together in the fight against cancer as researchers release a game which will allow smartphone ...