As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its approval process and get a safe vaccine to market much faster. The EPA has approved a summer release date for disease-fighting...

While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated by these same forces to push an immunization agenda and institute global government.

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 farming' without any justification. Trusting your gut can lead you astray,

Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution saved an estimated billion people from starvation, but critics contend his work brought severe  environmental and social consequences to the developing world. Are they right?

A dearth of coronavirus tests has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and elsewhere, but a newly FDA-approved test may ease the shortage and help public health officials better mitigate the crisis. Conspiracies about the virus may be more harmf...

While political leaders and scientists speculate that coronavirus is beginning to loosen its grip on the world, hospitals are considering using the blood of recovered patients as a preventative measure and treatment for COVID-19.

Paul Offit has forged a second career as an influential spokesman for scientific thinking.

Most scientific research is flawed. Here's how it gets published, and how you can spot it in the media

On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, Tim Lu talks to Cameron English about Senti's progress toward "outsmarting complex diseases with more intelligent medicines."

Looking at the massive selection of goods available in US grocery stores, most consumers likely don't realize just how hard it is to sustainably produce an abundant supply of food. Arguably the biggest challenge facing farmers and scientists in their e...