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Global ‘longevity hotspots’: What’s the secret of these blue zones?

Joseph Lillis, Justin Roberts | 
Ageing is an inevitable part of life, which may explain our strong fascination with the quest for longevity. The allure of eternal youth drives a multi-billion ...
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Tales from the front lines in the ‘vaccine wars’: Review of Peter Hotez’s Book, ‘The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science’

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
“If I don’t write this or stand up for vaccines, then who will?” That is what motivates the activism of ...
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Costa Rica revises its biotechnology regulations, dropping restrictions on gene editing and other New Breeding Techniques

USDA | 
Industry experts say a November 11, 2023, update to the Costa Rican biotechnology regulatory framework facilitates utilization of innovative biotechnologies ...
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Treating tinnitus: FDA approves first device to reduce ear ringing

Chuck Dinerstein | 
Tinnitus is a perceived sound that only you can hear. It might be a ringing, buzz, or tone. It arises ...
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Viewpoint: Do you believe in magic? Many nutritional supplements are impure, ineffective, unsafe — and unregulated. That needs to change

Henry Miller | 
Herbal dietary supplements (also known as nutritional supplements, but correctly called botanicals), once dismissed as hippie fare, are now widely ...
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Genetic embryo screening for health issues and IQ inch closer to reality. Here’s a primer on what you can expect

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
The world of IVF has introduced a host of ethical quandaries. For now, Alabamians will be spared grappling the latest, ...
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Addiction rewires the brain on a genetic level. As we learn more, new avenues for treatment come into focus

Karla Kaun | 
Addictive substances like alcohol and drugs can overwhelm the natural reward pathways in your brain, resulting in reduced impulse control ...
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False dawn or new dawn for genetically engineered crops in the European Union?

Steven Cerier | 
It's going to be a long and difficult journey before the fate of the European crop biotechnology reform bill passed ...
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How gene editing could rescue virus-devastated global papaya crop

Luiza Favarato | 
Plant viruses are formidable adversaries when it comes to producing high yielding crops, causing significant harm to global agriculture, and ...
Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

David Zaruk | 
If you want advice on which coffee maker or space heater to buy, Consumer Reports (CR) is where you go ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s manufactured ‘dangerous levels of chlormequat in oat cereals’ study underscores the ‘risk perception gap’

Andrea Love | 
The number of messages I received from people, mostly parents, who said they had been terrified to feed their children ...
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Viewpoint: Does Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and his popularity among ultra-conservative religious leaders echo the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Germany?

Meghan Garrity, Melissa Wilde | 
Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and ...
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Viewpoint: Journal Pediatrics reneges on its commitment to print response to botched article claiming GMOs are harmful to children. Here’s what they censored

Kevin Folta | 
A lot has been said about the journal Pediatrics December 2023 Clinical Report on "Using GMOs on Children". The poor scholarship ...
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Viewpoint: Are organizations claimed as “partners” with tort industry-funded Heartland Study aware of the scam? Here’s an ‘open letter’ challenge

Robert Wager et al. | 
Multiple science communicators and scientists have composed a letter to various universities and government organizations that have been linked to ...
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When in our evolutionary history did we become ‘human’?

Nick Longrich | 
We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around 2 million years ...
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Five reasons why the anti-biotech movement is in retreat

Mark Lynas | 
The pro-science community has recently chalked up several important wins in Europe. First, on January 24, the powerful environment committee ...
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Viewpoint: Money grab — How the Environmental Working Group works hand-in-hand with tort lawyers to generate billion-dollar junk suits

Hank Campbell | 
On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from ...
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Viewpoint: Exploiting chemophobia—Environmental Working Groups’s manufactured study claiming oat cereal contains dangerous pesticides designed to manipulate the media

Andrea Love | 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products ...
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Organ shortage and genetic modification: Tissues from 3D-bioprinting and GM pigs could address organ shortages but over-regulation causes lags

Henry Miller, Sally Satel | 
Modern medicine has produced many kinds of high-tech miracles, among them gene therapy to correct malfunctioning genes, electrical stimulation devices to restore ...
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Genetic justice: Polygenic scores and ethnic differences

Jonathan Anomaly | 
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are powerful tools. They gauge how likely you are to have a given trait based only ...
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Russia’s shadowy disinformation war against the United States and its allies — Here are some of its key targets  

Henry Miller | 
Russia’s decades-old propaganda machine seeks to damage the health and prosperity of the country's adversaries. Ukraine and the United States ...
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar?

Ricki Lewis | 
Posts were appearing on my Facebook feed warning against the dangers of eating tilapia. So I decided to do a ...
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What’s driving the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’ — and the link between activists and Russia?

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Sam Moxon | 
In October, in what could turn into a landmark case, a Missouri woman sued cosmetics company L'Oréal, claiming that her ...
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Probiotics are ‘enticing target’ for gene editing — but is CRISPR up for the challenge?

Ricki Lewis | 
Every morning I pop a Pearl probiotic. I try hard not to drop it, for the tiny, slippery yellow sphere ...
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Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse

David Zaruk | 
Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So ...
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