By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD This text was originally posted as a Twitter/X thread. We are reposting it (minus a few typos) as a short essay. 1/ Many people on Twitter are, ... The post The Future of the Lab Leak Theory appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project Late on Friday, December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) announced they were withdrawing their support for the “Darling 58” (D58) genetically engineered American chestnut tree. After ... The post The American Chestnut Foundation Bails as GE Chestnut Develops Growth and Fertility Problems and Fails to Resist the Blight appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

Scientists with an international rice initiative have been raising the alarm about a strain of bacterial blight causing outbreaks in rice fields in East Africa, and they say the patented transgenic varieties they have developed ... The post Transgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Stuart Newman and Tina Stevens Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of producing laboratory-crafted human children is proceeding rapidly. The objective is to turn ordinary body cells of ... The post Children from Gamete-like Cells: Dishing up a Eugenic Future appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham, PhD Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the largest and deadliest in history. Over 29,000 people were infected and more than 11,000 died ... The post Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

On July 5 2019, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng were removed by Canadian police from the Canadian National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their security clearances were also retracted, allegedly over “administrative ... The post Open for Military Business: Ebola Research at Canada’s Only BSL-4 Lab appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Back in March, the World Health Organisation’s report on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic coronavirus confirmed something that had long been widely presumed. Since the pandemic ... The post Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Jorge Casesmeiro Roger On May 26 U.S. President Biden gave U.S. Intelligence agencies 90 days to report findings about the possible Wuhan lab origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. One component of this investigation, having ... The post By Investigating Itself The US Can Answer Many Of The Key COVID19 Origin Questions appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD One of the very earliest scientific papers from the COVID-19 pandemic era now has over 11,000 citations. Appearing in the scientific journal Nature on February 3rd 2020, ... The post A Chinese PhD Thesis Sheds Important New Light On The Origin of the COVID-19 Coronavirus appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more

by Jonathan Latham, PhD Sustainable, local, organic food grown on small farms has a tremendous amount to offer. Unlike chemical-intensive industrial-scale agriculture, it regenerates rural communities; it doesn’t pollute rivers and groundwater or create dead ... The post Agriculture’s Greatest Myth appeared first on Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News ..read more