The outcomes from an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) project, “Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) Development for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Categorization” (NanoAOP) have been officially published in a series of final reports.

Vireo Advisors, LLC, in collaboration with Baylor University and the Alliance for Food Safety Acceptance of Fibrillated and Crystalline Celluloses (AFSAC), has published “Physical, chemical, and toxicological characterization of sulfated cellulose nanocrystals for food-related applications using in vivo and in vitro strategies”, available in the journal Toxicology Research.

Kevin Esvelt, one of the inventors of CRISPR-based gene drive, offers advice on how to ethically develop and use these technologies to block the spread of animal-borne diseases, reduce pests without the use of toxins, and provide solutions to conservation problems.

Psychologist Barry Fischhoff, an authority on the science of decision-making, explains the importance of testing COVID-19 messages before releasing them to the public.

A genetically modified yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae with lactate dehydrogenase from Rhizopus oryzae, was named "Generally Recognized As Safe” (GRAS) by the FDA Office of Food Additive Safety on January 16, 2019, for use as a processing aid in beer manufacturing.