Biomedicine & Biotech

Disclaimer: Some most all of you may probably will will find some most all of this article potentially vulgar. Don't blame me. Yuks matter. 

Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ship.

When I was in elementary school, I remember going to the county health department before every school year. There were many other kids there, and we were all there for the same reason: shots.

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Humans have practiced genetic modification, or genetic engineering (GE), of plants and animals through selection and breeding for more than 10,000 years. It’s called agriculture.

Humans have practiced genetic modification, or genetic engineering (GE), of plants and animals through selection and breeding for more than 10,000 years. It’s called agriculture.

I began by explaining the role of nitrogen in plant growth, especially the clever partnership legumes like peas and soybeans have with nitrogen-fixing bacteria called Rhizobia.

Disclaimer: For those of you who read this article for purely prurient reasons I must regretfully inform you that there is a real chance you may actually learn something.

Ask anyone, whether it's a librarian, vegetarian, Hungarian, or a dromedarian (yes, I made that up), or anyone else, where the first successful method of preventing norovirus (aka "stomach flu") infections might come from,

October 29th marks the 41st anniversary of one of biotechnology’s most significant milestones — the approval by the FDA of human insulin synthesized in genetically engineered bacteria to treat diabetes.