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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41... Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

Africa’s quiet biotech revolution: Gene editing emerges from Europe’s anti-GMO shadow or decades, European regulations have dominated the global conversation on agricultural biotechnology in many regions of the globe. From field to trade

Africa’s quiet biotech revolution: Gene editing emerges from Europe’s anti-GMO shadow geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/11/a...

Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last Experiments identify a bacterium as the cause of sea-star wasting disease, which has devastated populations along the western coast of North America.

Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Viewpoint: California's science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of 'tort shakedown' racket ot to many years ago, my  wife and I once elebrated our anniversary in South Lake Tahoe, situated on the border of California and Nevada. As we sat

Viewpoint: California's science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of 'tort shakedown' racket geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/08/v...

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do.

RFK Jr.’s mRNA Betrayal: How Political Ideology Trumped Nobel Prize-Winning Science quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

"The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service, ultimately earning approximately 4,000 Purple Hearts, 21 Medals of Honor and an unprecedented seven Presidential Unit Citations."

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Viewpoint: California's science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of 'tort shakedown' racket ot to many years ago, my  wife and I once elebrated our anniversary in South Lake Tahoe, situated on the border of California and Nevada. As we sat

Viewpoint: California's science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of 'tort shakedown' racket geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/08/v...

Introducing the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment The Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films makes available more than 100 films documenting Japanese American WWII incarceration.

Amazing resource on Japanese American internment🗃️
densho.org/catalyst/int...

RFK Jr. is targeting mRNA technology, a major scientific advancement that allowed for the rapid development of coronavirus vaccines. wapo.st/4lhtvKe

Opinion | Where to go for accurate, up-to-date vaccine information Concerned about federal government websites? Here are some trusted alternatives.

Where to go for accurate, up-to-date vaccine information wapo.st/3HrvCgC

Viewpoint: NGO deception II—How environmental activists turn faux chemical crises into marketing and fundraising bonanzas The ‘Filthy Fifteen’ exposes the worst environmental and health ‘fear profiteers’ and campaigns—from activist ideologues to corporate opportunists—who

Viewpoint: NGO deception II—How environmental activists turn faux chemical crises into marketing and fundraising bonanzas geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/07/v...

M&M’s maker turns to gene editing to try to secure cocoa supply The maker of Dove chocolate and M&M's is entering into a licensing agreement with Pairwise, an agricultural gene editing firm.

M&M’s maker turns to gene editing to try to secure cocoa supply www.seattletimes.com/business/mms...

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t Some mice were more adept at seeking water after the gene change, signaling a behavioral change and potential cognitive advantage.

One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t wapo.st/44ZUkhk Humans and Neanderthals are virtually identical at the genetic level. Scientists are probing the differences to understand why we are here, and they aren’t.

Longitudinal Study Finds No Adverse Health Effects of GM Maize in Primate Model A study spanning more than seven years has found no significant health risks associated with the long-term consumption of genetically modified (GM) maize in cynomolgus macaques. Conducted across two g...

Longitudinal Study Finds No Adverse Health Effects of GM Maize in Primate Model www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiote...

Data vs. Doubt: Danish Scientist Responds to U.S. HHS Secretary Critique of Aluminum Vaccine Study Anders Hviid, August 3, 2025, Copenhagen In his opinion piece published August 1, 2025, on Trialsite News, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services raises a number of methodol...

Data vs. Doubt: Danish Scientist Responds to U.S. HHS Secretary Critique of Aluminum Vaccine Study www.trialsitenews.com/a/data-vs.-d...

Scientists Unveil Genetic Map to Wheat 'Cancer' Chinese scientists have created the world's first genetic map for wheat resistance to yellow rust, a destructive fungal disease. Published in Nature Genetics, this breakthrough was a collaborative eff...

Scientists Unveil Genetic Map to Wheat 'Cancer' www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiote...

Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease

Scientists Finally Identify Killer Microbe Behind ‘Terrifying’ Sea Star Disease www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s... A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible.

World-first: mRNA vaccine for FMD in cattle and sheep now on the doorstep $20m and five years in the making: Beef's big biosecurity boost.

World-first: mRNA vaccine for FMD in cattle and sheep now on the doorstep www.farmonline.com.au/story/903298...

excellent. thanks! find any cool sea slugs?

Is the honeybee crisis a hoax after all? | BBC Science Focus Magazine Panic over declining honeybee numbers is making headlines, but our love for the humble bee might be keeping us from seeing the bigger picture

In 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated that honeybee colonies have increased globally by 45 per cent since 1990... Another study showed an 85-per-cent increase since 1960. www.sciencefocus.com/nature/hope-...

Sustaining the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs: How to Continue Miraculous Biotech Advances The last three administrations have mandated updates and improvements to reduce unjustified regulatory burdens on biotech innovations, but only small steps have been taken where large ones are require...

Sustaining the Goose That Lays Golden Eggs: How to Continue Miraculous Biotech Advances itif.org/publications...

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the jo...

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered phys.org/news/2025-07... via @physorg_com

'Forever chemicals’ are not forever: Bacteria easily cultivated in a lab break down PFAS A research team from Catholic University in Piacenza has isolated about 20 bacterial species from PFAS-contaminated soil in the Veneto region. These

'Forever chemicals’ are not forever: Bacteria easily cultivated in a lab break down PFAS geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/07/03/f...

Geofencing AI Chips: Evaluating “Call Home” Mandates for Semiconductor Security Join the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) for an expert discussion on the implications of location verification requirements f...

Geofencing AI Chips: Evaluating “Call Home” Mandates for Semiconductor Security itif.org/events/2025/...

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation' t’s springtime in the US, which means the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their annual Dirty Dozen list, the bane of everyone who understands

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation' geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/07/07/v...

Expression of multiple horizontally acquired genes is a hallmark of both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes - Genome Biology Background A fundamental concept in biology is that heritable material, DNA, is passed from parent to offspring, a process called vertical gene transfer. An alternative mechanism of gene acquisition i...

"We argue that [Horizontal Gene Transfer] has occurred, and continues to occur, on a previously unsuspected scale in metazoans and is likely to have contributed to biochemical diversification during animal evolution." genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... & www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections In a small cell therapy trial, 10 out of 12 people with type 1 diabetes no longer needed supplemental insulin, even a year after treatment.

A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections www.sciencenews.org/article/type...

'Forever chemicals’ are not forever: Bacteria easily cultivated in a lab break down PFAS A research team from Catholic University in Piacenza has isolated about 20 bacterial species from PFAS-contaminated soil in the Veneto region. These

'Forever chemicals’ are not forever: Bacteria easily cultivated in a lab break down PFAS geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/07/03/f...