Most flowering species rely on pollinators to reproduce, such as this daisy from South Africa is dependent on bee-flies. (Allan Ellis/Stellenbosch University) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — In a win for ...

The FDA has proposed changes to the agricultural water rule that is part of the Food Safety and Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule. EPA did not adequately analyze the impact of streptomycin on ...

A new study found that streptomycin, a popular antibiotic sprayed on food crops, negatively impacts the behavior of bumblebees. The study, funded by a USDA grant and conducted by scientists at Emory ...

A coalition of environmental and farmworker groups is suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for allowing use of the medically important antibiotic streptomycin on citrus. The groups are ...

People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which ...

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The custodian of the nation’s meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston’s Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug—foreign nations; Congressmen ...