Biomedicine & Biotech

Many people believe that a so-called “genetically modified organism” (GMO) is a term that has some significance for interpreting the safety of food.

Most life on Earth -  plants, algae, and even some microorganisms - gain energy due to photosynthesis, a process where sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide are used to make glucose, a type of food for them just like it is u

The exhaled breath or “blow” squirted from the Eastern Australian humpback whale is replete with its own viral ecosystem or virome.

1. Recycling My Own Blood

For decades the potential of stem cells to cure all disease was promised.

Since you aren't here unless you are a pro-science reader, if I ask you what Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Center for Food Safety, Environmental Working Group and Center for Science in the Public Interest have in common, you

In case you missed it, Bill and Melinda Gates were pretty visible over the weekend expanding their altruistic pursuits, specifically by contributing their names and ample resources to important, underfunded causes.

For my monthly installment of the macabre, the fascinating discovery by archaeologists of more than 140 children and 200 young llamas on Peru’s northern coast won’t disappoint.

It's dangerous being livestock. If you aren't being fattened up to be turned into a Happy Meal, you're wandering the fields, gobbling up plants that appear tasty and innocent but are actually toxic.

A team of nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons from