Top news of the week: 12.05.2020.
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Food And Agriculture
RT @MatinQaim: Important details about the size and strategies of the anti-GMO propaganda industry. But in the end, this is not about finger-pointing. We all need to work hard to give science a stronger role in the public debate and formation of opinions. https://t.co/fZN93FZXSY via @science2_0
OpenNew Journalism Tool Reveals How Paid Deniers Dominate The Anti-GMO Movement
A year-long Genetic Literacy Project investigation culminating in the rollout of the Anti-GMO Funding Tracker has found that despite claims that the agro-chemical industry, led by Monsanto, ...
Book review: Sheldon Krimsky’s 'GMOs Decoded' cherry-picks data to spur fear of biotech crops by Judith M. Heimann https://t.co/tdMfbiNFFb
OpenBook review: Sheldon Krimsky’s ‘GMOs Decoded’ cherry-picks data to spur fear of biotech crops
Judith Heimann reviews “GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods,” by Sheldon Krimsky.
Another nonsensical theory for the coronavirus pandemic: Roundup. https://t.co/tz2AZWjtuV @mcgillu
OpenGlyphosate to blame for COVID-19? Here’s how we know Bayer’s weedkiller didn’t cause the pandemic
An MIT computer scientist with no expertise in agriculture, chemistry, toxicology, or the biological sciences. And yet for some reason, Stephanie Seneff
Rescuing Africa's orphan crops with biotechnology could help feed millions of hungry people Uchechi Moses https://t.co/dESTTnloxp
OpenRescuing Africa’s staple orphan crops—sorghum, millet, cowpea, cassava and sweat potato—with biotechnology could help feed millions of people
he year is 2100 and Africa is home to the world’s largest population of young people, with its current leader – Nigeria – having close to a billion people
Nigeria’s lockdown, imposed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, has made it difficult to get the first GMO cowpea seeds out to farmers. https://t.co/81LppmBNC8 @ScienceAlly
OpenCOVID-19 may stall Nigeria’s rollout of GMO cowpea
The COVID-19 pandemic may delay the rollout of pest-resistant Bt cowpea, Nigeria’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop. The country’s lockdown,
The #BioRevolution is a powerful new wave of innovation expected to transform business and society in #healthcare and beyond. What are the opportunities and risks?
https://t.co/QDrWw8V8qt @McKinsey_MGI @mchui #crispr #biotech #synbio
OpenPrecision medicine: Opening the aperture
The biological revolution is driving a new generation of biological technologies that is transforming the competitive landscape beyond healthcare.
"In a convening of 100 Synthetic Biology CEOs, Scientists and Industry Leaders last week, Silicon Valley-based SynBioBeta identified a California BioPreferred Program as an important keystone measure for any post-COVID economic stimulus program." https://t.co/fVyVT7baEW
OpenCould Biomanufacturing See A Renaissance In The Post-COVID Economy?
As governments debate measures to re-open the global economy, biomanufacturing could end up becoming an underdog success story in the post-COVID economy.
Podcast: GMO witchcraft, Remdesivir emergency approval, claims coronavirus was caused by “Big Ag” and more on this episode of Science Facts and Fallacies. https://t.co/9m06j5IWMn @kevinfolta @Camjenglish
OpenPodcast: GMOs = witchcraft? ‘Big Ag’ didn’t cause coronavirus; Remdesivir for COVID-19
We finally have a drug to treat COVID-19 in remdesivir, but how well does it work? Anti-GMO activists have blamed the coronavirus pandemic on 'factory