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GLP Features

Two years after Wuhan: Why Omicron is a ‘blindsiding riptide’

Two years after Wuhan: Why Omicron is a ‘blindsiding riptide’

GMO patent controversy 3: Does Monsanto sue farmers for inadvertent GMO 'contamination'?

GMO patent controversy 3: Does Monsanto sue farmers for inadvertent GMO ‘contamination’?

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA 'bioengineered' labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

GMO patent controversy 2: Supreme Court cases of farmers Bowman and Schmeiser

GMO patent controversy 2: Supreme Court cases of farmers Bowman and Schmeiser

Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.

Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.

GMO patent controversy: Terminator genes, seed piracy and 'forcing' farmers to buy seeds

GMO patent controversy: Terminator genes, seed piracy and ‘forcing’ farmers to buy seeds

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them

Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — 'Very little about modern life is natural — and it's time we all got over it’

Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — ‘Very little about modern life is natural — and it’s time we all got over it’

Cameron English

Will we need to get annual COVID booster shots for the rest of our lives?

Will we need to get annual COVID booster shots for the rest of our lives?

Chuck Dinerstein

Featured Articles

Two years after Wuhan: Why Omicron is a ‘blindsiding riptide’

Two years after Wuhan: Why Omicron is a ‘blindsiding riptide’

GMO patent controversy 3: Does Monsanto sue farmers for inadvertent GMO 'contamination'?

GMO patent controversy 3: Does Monsanto sue farmers for inadvertent GMO ‘contamination’?

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA 'bioengineered' labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

GMO patent controversy 2: Supreme Court cases of farmers Bowman and Schmeiser

GMO patent controversy 2: Supreme Court cases of farmers Bowman and Schmeiser

Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.

Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.

GMO patent controversy: Terminator genes, seed piracy and 'forcing' farmers to buy seeds

GMO patent controversy: Terminator genes, seed piracy and ‘forcing’ farmers to buy seeds

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them

Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — 'Very little about modern life is natural — and it's time we all got over it’

Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — ‘Very little about modern life is natural — and it’s time we all got over it’

Cameron English

Will we need to get annual COVID booster shots for the rest of our lives?

Will we need to get annual COVID booster shots for the rest of our lives?

Chuck Dinerstein

GLP Podcasts More...

Podcast: Why do people donate kidneys to strangers? Is altruism an evolved human trait?

Podcast: Why do people donate kidneys to strangers? Is altruism an evolved human trait?

Barry Lam, Kieran Setiya | December 17, 2021

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA 'bioengineered' labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | December 16, 2021

GLP Podcast: Chemical risks doubled in five years? Vaccines from plants; Henrietta Lacks’ stolen cells

GLP Podcast: Chemical risks doubled in five years? Vaccines from plants; Henrietta Lacks’ stolen cells

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | December 9, 2021

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Viewpoint: No more Christmas trees? Why proposed bans on neonicotinoids won’t protect bees but will threaten many other plants

Elizabeth Hicks | Detroit News

5 reasons why the GMO debate is over

Sarah Evanega | Cornell Alliance for Science

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group on the wrong side of science with simplistic attack on animal agriculture’s impact on climate

Cameron English | American Council on Science and Health

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Carlos Guimarães Filho | Tribuna do Paraná

Viewpoint: ‘CRISPR democratizes science by making gene editing available to all agricultural researchers’

Tomas Urbaitas | Technology Networks

How can we produce more food with less environmental impact: Book review of ‘The Economics of Sustainable Food’

Alex Smith, Saloni Shah | Issues in Science and Technology

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Video: A-maze-ing — How a robot used ‘smart polymers’ to teach itself to navigate labyrinths

Eindhoven University of Technology

Yet another patient was naturally cured of HIV

Amy Norton | US News & World Report

Podcast: Why do people donate kidneys to strangers? Is altruism an evolved human trait?

Barry Lam, Kieran Setiya | Slate

CRISPR gene therapy shows great promise — but evidence suggests caution about unintended consequences is warranted

Gemma Wilson | Medical Progress

Genetic screening can reveal your likelihood of suffering from a deadly disease — but that doesn’t mean you can’t change the odds

Daniel Davis | Guardian

Stylish, elegant — and deadly: Human euthanasia machine will soon be tested on volunteers

Julian Mark | Washington Post

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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

Viewpoint: No more Christmas trees? Why proposed bans on neonicotinoids won’t protect bees but will threaten many other plants

Viewpoint: No more Christmas trees? Why proposed bans on neonicotinoids won’t protect bees but will threaten many other plants

Viewpoint: Are the EPA and other regulatory agencies dragging their feet by not restricting glyphosate weedkiller?

GMO patent controversy 2: Supreme Court cases of farmers Bowman and Schmeiser

Ancestry & Evolution

Podcast: Why do people donate kidneys to strangers? Is altruism an evolved human trait?

Podcast: Why do people donate kidneys to strangers? Is altruism an evolved human trait?

Evolution will determine how COVID changes after Omicron

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Biomedicine & Disease

Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party

Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party

What can we expect from two about-to-be-introduced COVID treatment pills?

Evolution will determine how COVID changes after Omicron

Biotech Communications

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party

GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods

Brain / Neuroscience

Many people experience visions and strange dreams before they die

Many people experience visions and strange dreams before they die

Suicidal tendencies linked to specific genes, correlated with other psychiatric risk factors such as smoking and sleep disturbances

Viagra could cut risk of Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 70%

Chemicals & Pesticides

Viewpoint: If Kenya relents to activist pressure and bans pesticides, coffee, maize and wheat farmers could lose up to 90% of crops

Viewpoint: If Kenya relents to activist pressure and bans pesticides, coffee, maize and wheat farmers could lose up to 90% of crops

Viewpoint: Climate change-fighting agricultural tools are delivering enormous benefits — but anti-biotechnology activists continue to vilify them

Viewpoint: Will the US endorse this Congressional proposal to adopt Europe’s innovation-stifling ‘precautionary principle’ regulation?

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Viewpoint: Are the EPA and other regulatory agencies dragging their feet by not restricting glyphosate weedkiller?

A second Green Revolution: How gene editing could revolutionize photosynthesis and transform agriculture

‘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

3 years ago, CRISPR was used to alter the genes of two babies in China. How are they faring now?

3 years ago, CRISPR was used to alter the genes of two babies in China. How are they faring now?

Regrowing limbs using CRISPR? It’s been done with lizards, with hopes that human limb regeneration will be possible in the future

Programming biology: How gene synthesis will lead to a host of medical and drug innovations

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

Omicron multiplies 70 times faster than Delta — but infects the lungs less

Omicron multiplies 70 times faster than Delta — but infects the lungs less

This virus expert accurately predicted 800,000 Americans would die of COVID. What does he think the future holds?

Viewpoint: Are the EPA and other regulatory agencies dragging their feet by not restricting glyphosate weedkiller?

New Breeding Techniques

Viewpoint: ‘CRISPR democratizes science by making gene editing available to all agricultural researchers’

Viewpoint: ‘CRISPR democratizes science by making gene editing available to all agricultural researchers’

GMO patent controversy: Terminator genes, seed piracy and ‘forcing’ farmers to buy seeds

‘It will be a wonderful day when these potatoes get into the hands of farmers’: Uganda develops genetically engineered disease-resistant version of the country’s most important crop

Personal Genomics

Couples undergoing IVF can get genetic testing to prevent birth defects

Couples undergoing IVF can get genetic testing to prevent birth defects

Genome sequencing for newborns can save lives. Should governments mandate it?

What worms and fruit flies can tell us about living past 100

Science of the Future

Stylish, elegant — and deadly: Human euthanasia machine will soon be tested on volunteers

Stylish, elegant — and deadly: Human euthanasia machine will soon be tested on volunteers

It’s alive! 3-D printers can produce biological blobs for medical and industrial uses

Can sex be chosen? Gene edited mice might provide an answer

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation

How can we produce more food with less environmental impact: Book review of ‘The Economics of Sustainable Food’

A second Green Revolution: How gene editing could revolutionize photosynthesis and transform agriculture

Synthetic Biology

No bones, no scales, no waste: Is that enough to convince consumers to eat cultured, cell-based seafood?

No bones, no scales, no waste: Is that enough to convince consumers to eat cultured, cell-based seafood?

Can cell-cultured breast milk provide parents with another option?

Animal-free real dairy products are beginning to roll out