The FDA's Food Label Flaws
These days many consumers rely on the “Nutrition Facts” labels on the back of food products to count calories, check fat content and decide if what they’re eating is healthy….
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No Patent for Dolly the Cloned Sheep, Court Rules, Adding to Industry Jitters
Dolly the sheep enjoyed a brief and highly publicized life as the first mammal cloned from an adult cell before succumbing to lung disease in 2003 at age 6. But…
If Your Doctor Could Tell You That You'll Get Breast Cancer, Would You Want to Know?
Counsyl, a Silicon Valley company that screens prospective parents for their risk of passing on rare inherited diseases, has expanded its genetic testing service to assess your inherited risks for…
Analyzing Sperm Cells to Learn About Animal Infidelity, Evolution
Researchers at the Natural History Museum at University of Oslo, Norway, were among the first in the world to start analyzing sperm cells to learn more about bird evolution and…
How the Brain Deletes Old Memories
Do you remember your first birthday? How about what you ate for breakfast weeks ago? For most people, such events slip through the sieve of memory, never to be retrieved….
Vermont Becomes First US State to Require GM Labelling for Food
Vermont became the first state in the US on Thursday to adopt a law requiring labels for foods containing genetically modified ingredients. The state’s governor, Peter Shumlin, announced on his…