A few weeks ago we published an article “Can Biotechnology Control Human Behaviour?”.
A study found that transplant recipients routinely acquire the memories of the...
The University of Auckland has announced that it is joining a research project of national significance co-hosted with Victoria University of Wellington and supported by the...
The Government has announced that during the next three months it will take Cabinet decisions on new regulations to remove the ban on genetic engineering...
The New Zealand government plans to deregulate biotechnology, what does that mean for our food supply and our health?
A comprehensive presentation by Kate Mason...
The World Health Assembly of WHO has announced that agreement has been reached on an amended version of the proposed International Health regulations to take effect...
Every so often you find a study that breaks new ground and advances human understanding.
The journal Transplantology has published a paper entitled “Personality Changes...
Recent research by the Institute of Economic Research reveals a concerning trend among newly appointed primary school teachers.
The study, which analysed the school qualifications...
The Covid pandemic created some of the worst science writing in our lifetimes.
Major media outlets failed at providing readers with accurate and balanced news...
In 1953, the same year that DNA was discovered, Mount Everest climbed and Queen Elizabeth crowned, a graduate student in Chicago passed an electrical...
MBIE officials met with two major Chinese science agencies in Wellington recently, recognising a continued commitment to collaborative research and innovation between New Zealand...
Post-pandemic we have found ourselves living in a considerably changed world.
A polarised world with elevated levels of social and international conflict. How did we...
Personal information offered for sale by hackers is authentic, 23andMe has said.
The California-based 23andMe has confirmed that the personal information of its customers put...
A paradigm is a framework of ideas, concepts, models, research methods and assumptions that constitute the basis of a scientific theory or outlook.
It can...
In the short space of three years New Zealand society has been transformed.
Our economic circumstances, our health landscape, our political ideas, our attitude to...
Another among hundreds of novel biotech vaccines currently under development for a range of diseases has gained approval from the US FDA.
Abrysvo is Pfizer’s vaccine...
Someone wrote to us after our last article “Startling revelations change everything New Zealanders have been schooled to believe” and complained that my writing...
Worldwide birthrate per 1,000 people follows a very predictable trend.
In “developed” and/or wealthy nations, the birthrate is low and in nations at the lower...
Many of my undergraduate courses covered the process of scientific progress.
We were required to examine key watersheds including the advent of relativity, quantum mechanics, and...
The National Party, a.k.a. Chris Luxon and Judith Collins, have announced their genetic engineering policy.
According to the policy document, the National GE policy will benefit...
Members of the public adversely affected by Covid vaccines may be the last to hear about it.
In his book Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn describes...
An article “Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine" has been published in the journal Open Forum of Infectious Diseases in their June 2023 issue.
The...
You're not alone!
With so much seeming bonkers about our world lately, I wanted to share something positive. A small indication that people might be...
New research has highlighted the role of fragments of genetic information in the development of aggressive cancers.
Genetic information known as extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) has...
Researchers discovered 15 particles of the contaminants per gram of vein tissue in the first study of its kind.
Microplastics have been found for the...