Andrew Ladenheim

[R]esearchers in Canada are leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze food bite-by-bite . All diners have to do is record themselves eating.

The Environment Department (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) gave regulatory clearance to start-up Meatly to sell its cultivated

The American public's trust in the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has significantly waned in recent years. The most recent Gallup Poll (2023), found that approval was at a two-decade low (41%), while disapproval was at a high point (58%). This decline can be partly attributed to a growing perception that the Court is dismissive of scientific expertise and evidence-based decision-making, especially in healthcare cases. Instead, the Court is concocting rationales to support its ideological leanings.Consider, for example, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024). The case (together with its companion, Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce), eviscerated the Chevron doctrine, which had empowered federal agencies to interpret ambiguous statutes and was especially important in agencies with special substantive expertise.This dismantling of deference now facilitates legal challenges to established governmental healthcare consumer protections. Many of these entities exist under the aegis of the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, (which includes 13 agencies, such as the FDA and CDC), but there are additional relevant agencies such as EPA, NOAA and OSHA, each operating under different Cabinet departments.Case-by-case determination of regulatory authority would undoubtedly sow confusion, creating uncertainty for businesses, healthcare providers, and consumers, and potentially undermining established standards of healthcare and environmental protections. Such expected inconsistency will generate a patchwork of decisions as different courts separately examine federal agencies’ determinations. The result will also disrupt insurance decisions, introducing uncertainty (the curse of the underwriter) as each matter is handled individually without any need to follow rulings from another judicial circuit. The case-by-case decision-making renders predictability of results highly elusive, as does the lack of respect for the expert personnel and scientific resources of science-based agencies. As one commentator stated:Chief Justice John Roberts wrote [in overruling Chevron] that the real experts on deciding if a toxin dumped in the water supply constitutes a dangerous threat or “new and improved taste!” are law school graduates. (Emphasis in original)

Thanks to the Green Revolution—a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw significantly increased crop yields and agricultural production—it

In the late 90s I left New Zealand as I wanted to use DNA tools in my research, but the rules that were coming into effect were very restrictive. Some

I can't wait for the day when anti-science activists decide to cling to an entirely different pesticide to fixate on (kidding, sorta). In reality, I

T his past July 24, Judge Michael Lee ruled on the carcinogenicity of RoundUp in a class action involving over 20,000 plaintiffs.

C limate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany.

Within the last century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation.Genes, regions of DNA that are largely responsible for our physical characteristics, were considered unchanging under the original model of genetics pioneered by biologist Gregor Mendel in 1865. That is, genes were thought to be largely unaffected by a person’s environment.The emergence of the field of epigenetics in 1942 shattered this notion.Epigenetics refers to shifts in gene expression that occur without changes to the DNA sequence. Some epigenetic changes are an aspect of cell function, such as those associated with aging.However, environmental factors also affect the functions of genes, meaning people’s behaviors affect their genetics. For instance, identical twins develop from a single fertilized egg, and as a result, they share the same genetic makeup. However, as the twins age, their appearances may differ due to distinct environmental exposures. One twin may eat a healthy balanced diet, whereas the other may eat an unhealthy diet, resulting in differences in the expression of their genes that play a role in obesity, helping the former twin have lower body fat percentage.

The commodification of lawsuit funding opens the door to even more bad faith participation in the justice system. ... Those gambling on the outcomes of