Biomedicine & Biotech

It sounds like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr.

For many years, the anti-GMO movement has advanced a compelling narrative about its struggle against the biotech industry—pejoratively referred to as 'Big Ag.' According to this story, organic food activists and environmental groups are independen

UV light is a powerful disinfectant because its high-energy photons are able to damage the genetic material inside of microbes. (The genetic material for most microbes is DNA.

As the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic continues to spread -- and, at this point, it doesn't look to be stopping anytime soon -- pharmaceutical companies and governments are working together to make vaccines against it.

For lack of a more sophisticated term, the reason we grow old and die is because our biological tissues “wear out.”

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The anti-GMO movement is bizarre in so many ways.

A serious infectious disease nearly wiped out a beloved species in the United States. Scientists have now discovered how to bring it back. Should they restore this once prevalent species to its former glory?

I just finished writing a commentary for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy entitled, The Economic Conundrum for Antibacterials.

Genetic engineering has delivered monumental scientific, technological, and humanitarian achievements – from producing human insulin in bacteria and gene therapy to treat genetic diseases to increasing food security and reducing malnutrition in de