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Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker

Our interactive GLP global map explains the status of each country’s regulations for human and agricultural gene editing and gene drives.

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Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker

This GLP project maps contributions by foundations to anti-biotech activists and compares it to pro-GMO industry spending.

GLP Features

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Wineries in California have been under siege for decades. There’s finally hope that grapevines can be saved from bacterial disease

Wineries in California have been under siege for decades. There’s finally hope that grapevines can be saved from bacterial disease

Agostino Petroni

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

Cameron English

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Philenchy Monfiston Sejour

$83 trillion in savings — Misguided attacks by ‘organic fundamentalists’ distort the revolutionary advancements of the Green Revolution

$83 trillion in savings — Misguided attacks by ‘organic fundamentalists’ distort the revolutionary advancements of the Green Revolution

Cameron English

Are geniuses are more likely to commit crimes than people of average intelligence?

Are geniuses are more likely to commit crimes than people of average intelligence?

Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility

Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility

Cameron English

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive

Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

Featured Articles

Viewpoint: Scientific American’s bizarre promotion of ‘woke’ agricultural biotechnology rejectionism

Viewpoint: Scientific American’s bizarre promotion of ‘woke’ agricultural biotechnology rejectionism

Cameron English

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

Cameron English

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Philenchy Monfiston Sejour

$83 trillion in savings — Misguided attacks by ‘organic fundamentalists’ distort the revolutionary advancements of the Green Revolution

$83 trillion in savings — Misguided attacks by ‘organic fundamentalists’ distort the revolutionary advancements of the Green Revolution

Cameron English

Are geniuses are more likely to commit crimes than people of average intelligence?

Are geniuses are more likely to commit crimes than people of average intelligence?

Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility

Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility

Cameron English

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?

Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive

Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

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GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | February 3, 2022

GLP Podcast: Academic freedom has limits? UK backtracks on neonic ban; 'Non-GMO' tearless onions

GLP Podcast: Academic freedom has limits? UK backtracks on neonic ban; ‘Non-GMO’ tearless onions

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | January 27, 2022

Podcast: Could the food we eat be fueling a surge in autoimmune diseases?

Podcast: Could the food we eat be fueling a surge in autoimmune diseases?

Ian Sample | January 24, 2022

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Viewpoint: Free speech dustup? Joe Rogan, Spotify, and especially Neil Young — promoting anti-science fear mongering on GMOs — all came away looking foolish

Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg

Viewpoint: Why Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork Policy organic embrace is a rejection of green, sustainable agriculture — and will isolate Europe

Robert Paarlberg | Food Policy

We need to double food production by 2050. Here’s how genetically tweaking cowpea, soybean, and potato could help meet that target

Amanda Cavanagh, Laura Thomson | AZO Cleantech

Biden Administration has followed Trump’s lead in challenging Europe’s crop biotechnology rejectionism

Paul Brian | Inside Sources

China has produced more research on gene-editing crops than any other country, and now Beijing is poised to reap the benefits

Dominique Patton | Reuters

Europe’s controversial organic-focused Farm to Fork strategy may be headed to independent European Commission review after studies raise sustainability doubts

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Vaccine pill? RNA-based capsule could also deliver therapies for gastrointestinal disease

Anne Trafton | MIT News

How do gene-environment interactions drive autism?

University of Geneva

Will Lia Thomas get bumped from the summer Olympics under the new USA swimming rules rolled out this week?

David Rieder | Swimming World

Genetically modified babies? Turkish-based medical tourism company says they can help you make one

Pete Shanks | Center for Genetics and Society

Sixth Mass Extinction: Why the world may be headed for a global biodiversity catastrophe, assessment claims

Marcie Grabowski | University of Hawaii at Manoa

Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?

Gina Kolata | New York Times

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GLP Library Search

The GLP Library contains over 25,000 articles—it is among the largest online repositories of genetics knowledge

Agricultural Laws & Regs

Biden Administration has followed Trump’s lead in challenging Europe’s crop biotechnology rejectionism

Biden Administration has followed Trump’s lead in challenging Europe’s crop biotechnology rejectionism

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

Ancestry & Evolution

The brain science behind thirst

The brain science behind thirst

‘Dating, mating, rating and hating’: Male-female sex differences rooted in more than 1,000 brain-related genes in mice — and almost certainly in humans

Long-standing belief that meat-eating helped drive human evolution called into question

Biomedicine & Disease

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

Elixir of life? A $3 billion bet on reversing the process of cellular aging

How artificial intelligence can isolate the most effective medical compounds in psychedelics

Biotech Communications

How COVID vaccine skepticism is morphing into a broader anti-vax movement

How COVID vaccine skepticism is morphing into a broader anti-vax movement

Viewpoint: Free speech dustup? Joe Rogan, Spotify, and especially Neil Young — promoting anti-science fear mongering on GMOs — all came away looking foolish

Post COVID ‘new normal’: How the coronavirus is permanently changing our health care system

Brain / Neuroscience

40% of children hospitalized from COVID have neurological symptoms

40% of children hospitalized from COVID have neurological symptoms

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

The brain science behind thirst

Chemicals & Pesticides

Biden Administration has followed Trump’s lead in challenging Europe’s crop biotechnology rejectionism

Biden Administration has followed Trump’s lead in challenging Europe’s crop biotechnology rejectionism

Viewpoint: Are synthetic pesticides necessary for farming? How agroecology, anti-biotechnology activist groups misrepresent the science and influence government policy

Sri Lanka’s failed all-organic experiment has sparked economic and humanitarian crisis

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

GLP Podcast: Genetics of sugar cravings; Male birth control; CRISPR-edited apples coming soon?

Viewpoint: The messy ‘non organic’ reality of imported organic food

Viewpoint: ‘Only GMOs will save the livestock sector’ — Genetically modified crops could lower the cost of feed 20% in Kenya

‘They squint, they stammer, they shuffle and shamble, they flounder like seals out of water’: Demonized for being different, left-handers are DNA puzzles

‘They squint, they stammer, they shuffle and shamble, they flounder like seals out of water’: Demonized for being different, left-handers are DNA puzzles

How epigenetics is poised to revolutionize food, farming and animal agriculture

How tall will your children be? Here are the nature versus nurture factors

Gene Editing / CRISPR

‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited

‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited

Disease free future? Debating the prospects of human embryo gene editing

CRISPR’s biggest challenge is addressing complex hereditary ailments like cystic fibrosis — but progress is being made

Gene therapy evolves to treat blood cancers and numerous other rare disorders

Gene therapy evolves to treat blood cancers and numerous other rare disorders

One-and-done intravenous gene editing infusion might eventually be able to cure HIV

mRNA COVID vaccines were decades in the making

Health & Wellness

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

‘Byzantine regulations’: Here are the human health and environmental reasons why we need to aggressively embrace GMOs and gene editing

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Omicron subvariant spreads 1.5x faster than Omicron — but vaccines are more effective at blocking it

New Breeding Techniques

China has produced more research on gene-editing crops than any other country, and now Beijing is poised to reap the benefits

China has produced more research on gene-editing crops than any other country, and now Beijing is poised to reap the benefits

Viewpoint: Why consumers will ignore new ‘bioengineered’ labels

Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients

Personal Genomics

Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?

Do biobanks that accept anonymous DNA have a responsibility to inform donors when they discover a treatable genetic defect?

Breast and ovarian cancer BRCA genes now linked to prostate and pancreatic cancers, even in men

‘Deleting’ disease? How gene editing and transgenic GMO technology can cut disorders before they are inherited

Science of the Future

What's the future of gene edited fish?

What’s the future of gene edited fish?

Future of transhumanism: When might a genetic makeover of the human body be viable?

Video: Will consumers embrace eating insects? 2 billion people globally already do

Sustainability / GreenGenes

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

How CRISPR and other forms of genetic engineering are revolutionizing farming and addressing climate change

Sixth Mass Extinction: Why the world may be headed for a global biodiversity catastrophe, assessment claims

Study credits climate, not genetics, for bumper US corn crop

Synthetic Biology

Blue steak: Here's how one start-up believes it can crack the cell-based food market with whole-cut tenderloins and filets

Blue steak: Here’s how one start-up believes it can crack the cell-based food market with whole-cut tenderloins and filets

Viewpoint: Will successful GMO pig heart and kidney transplants challenge anti-biotechnology mindsets?

A new wave of cow-free milk options are hitting the market. How will traditional dairy farmers fare?