Elizabeth Kolbert
A second Green Revolution: How gene editing could revolutionize photosynthesis and transform agriculture
Stephen Long is a professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the director ...
Gene editing: Playing God or repairing a ‘natural system’ that has gone haywire?
With CRISPR, biologists have already created—among many, many other living things—ants that can’t smell, beagles that put on superhero-like brawn, ...
Scientists use ‘assisted evolution’ in attempt to save coral reefs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Hawaii Institute of ...
Could the world’s species experience another mass extinction? Maybe.
According to a study published in Science Advances, the current extinction rate could be more than 100 times higher than normal—and that’s ...
What de-extinction can’t bring back
There are a lots of potential problems with de-extinction, starting with the fact that, in any rigorous way, it’s probably ...