Isaac Ongu | Genetic Literacy Project
Talking directly to members of the Ugandan Parliament and several farmers who continue to suffer the burden of banana bacterial wilt, Uganda's president challenged members who had doubts about biotechnology to be more forward thinking. Could this be the nail in the Uganda’s anti GMO activists coffin?
Roy Williams | Genetic Literacy Project
The world wide web has become inundated with anti-GMO sentiment, spreading fast like an invasive species and casting GMOs as an 'unnatural environmentally dangerous crop.' Could science stop, clarify this new level of hysteria or will this continue to fan the flames of debate?
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Jon Cohen | October 29, 2015
The authors of a
controversial 2011 trial that showed that exercise and behavioral therapy could
help treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) released a follow-up study that
supports their original findings. But the new report comes on the heels of a
lengthy and highly critical examination of the original trial by a journalist. At issue is an $8 million trial run in the
United Kingdom, dubbed PACE, which examined a number of treatments for CFS, a
disease also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) that has no known cause.
In The Lancet, the PACE researchers reported that patients with CFS/ME experienced
“moderate improvements” in their symptoms if they did a program of graded
exercise or cognitive behavior therapy. Two other interventions tested,
so-called specialist medical care and adaptive pacing therapy, did not help.....
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