All of us have had the experience of learning things, as the saying goes, “the hard way.” That phenomenon has been captured perfectly by a meme found lately on everything
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche on Monday applied to market the firm’s first COVID-19 monoclonal antibody cocktail, Ronapreve (casirivimab/imdevimab), in the European Union. This is the final stage before Ronapreve, which
A review of Jennifer Thomson’s book “GM Crops and the Global Divide” (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) by Kathleen L. Hefferon and Henry I. Miller Jennifer Thomson’s excellent new book, “GM Crops and
The acceptance of genetically engineered food is a divisive topic that is deeply embedded in the ongoing debate around climate change, sustainability and food security. Despite studies finding that genetically
A New Controversy A new controversy about SARS-CoV-2 is rocking the social media world. Conspiracy theorists are having a field day! According to some people – including the extraordinarily talented professor
The groundbreaking documentary Food Evolution offered the general public a science-based introduction to crop biotechnology, revealing how activists attack it and debunking some of the more pernicious myths about GMOs
In the September 2019 issue of Nature Biotechnology, a collective of scientists mostly from Insilico Medicine, led by Alex Zhavoronkov, CEO and founder of the company, published a landmark article.
Understanding gene editing with comic book figures Humanity is currently facing a huge challenge imposed by the Coronavirus. Borders are being shut down, planes grounded, and factories closed. At the