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Viewpoint: Intensive ‘industrial’ agriculture boosts farm productivity, promotes environmental sustainability

Alex Smith, Caroline Grunewald

5-17-2019 phage news

Podcast: CRISPR advances, HIV cures and a perfect predator for superbugs

Jane Brody, Kat Arney, Katie Couric, Ravi Gupta, Steffanie Strathdee, Vinod Jaskula-Ranga

Ectogenesis: How artificial placentas could aid premature babies, upend entrenched abortion views

David Warmflash

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Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace

Podcast: Can we ‘outsmart’ cancer with synthetic biology? Dr. Tim Lu talks customized disease treatments

Cameron English, Tim Lu

Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits

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Viewpoint: Common pesticides unsafe at any dose? Here’s what’s wrong with Brazilian researcher’s ‘unsupported’ claims

Natalia Pasternak

Featured Articles

November 13, 2019

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Genetically modified mosquitos are a small price to pay for malaria eradication

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Will CRISPR’s promise force the organic industry to reconsider its opposition to gene-edited crops?

Andrew Porterfield

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How the pursuit of better education, career opportunities may be creating regional genetic inequalities

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Fighting climate change with gene editing: Can we slash cows’ methane production?

Patrick Whittle

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Viewpoint: Intensive ‘industrial’ agriculture boosts farm productivity, promotes environmental sustainability

Alex Smith, Caroline Grunewald

5-17-2019 phage news

Podcast: CRISPR advances, HIV cures and a perfect predator for superbugs

Jane Brody, Kat Arney, Katie Couric, Ravi Gupta, Steffanie Strathdee, Vinod Jaskula-Ranga

Ectogenesis: How artificial placentas could aid premature babies, upend entrenched abortion views

David Warmflash

pcs natural golden rice plant non gmo heirloom high disease resistancehigh yield recrop high quality jpg q

Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace

Podcast: Can we ‘outsmart’ cancer with synthetic biology? Dr. Tim Lu talks customized disease treatments

Cameron English, Tim Lu

Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits

capa agrotóxicos px resize

Viewpoint: Common pesticides unsafe at any dose? Here’s what’s wrong with Brazilian researcher’s ‘unsupported’ claims

Natalia Pasternak

GLP Library

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Food safety officials reject Golden Rice-cancer link as Philippines inches toward commercializing the GMO crop

UK could tackle sustainability challenges post Brexit with GMO crops, farmer’s union chief says

California investigates pesticide safety limits for marijuana, fearing users exposed to ‘unsafe’ chemical levels

Ancestry & Evolution

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Chicxulub asteroid impact sparked mammal growth surge, fossil ‘trove’ shows

9 significant archaeological discoveries of the past decade, including a Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid

Enduring misconception: Why are we still drawing evolution as a straight line?

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

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Viewpoint: Most Americans ‘woefully underprepared’ for bioethical decisions, including when to remove a loved one from life support

Ectogenesis: How artificial placentas could aid premature babies, upend entrenched abortion views

Viewpoint: Moving forward with human gene editing requires scientists to ‘educate, engage, and empower’ the public, policymakers

Biomedicine & Disease

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Futurist Jamie Metzl: How genetic engineering could help us live longer

‘Super rare’ mutation protected Colombian woman from Alzheimer’s disease

Podcast: CRISPR advances, HIV cures and a perfect predator for superbugs

Biotech Communications

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New investment rules would limit shareholder advocacy attempts to influence company stance on GMOs, climate change

77% of Generation Z willing to eat CRISPR, GMO-derived foods, new report shows

Podcast: CRISPR might save the banana from deadly disease. Will consumers get behind the technology?

Brain / Neuroscience

People with better memories may have better romantic relationships, study suggests

‘Science doesn’t align with folk beliefs’: Study refutes idea that girls don’t have minds for math

‘Super rare’ mutation protected Colombian woman from Alzheimer’s disease

Chemicals & Pesticides

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Winter honeybee losses cut in half since 2012 as beekeepers battle deadly varroa mite

Commonly used pesticide 1,3-D has smaller impact on soil microbes than tillage, cover crops or irrigation, study shows

Video: ‘What will I eat today’ vs. ‘will I eat today?’ – It’s time to trust African scientists (on access to GMO and gene edited crops)

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Food safety officials reject Golden Rice-cancer link as Philippines inches toward commercializing the GMO crop

Tyson Foods’ plant-based ‘chicken’ nuggets now sold in 7,000 stores

Monsanto’s GMO soybean as safe as conventional counterpart, EU Food Safety Authority confirms

Gene Editing / CRISPR

5-17-2019 phage news

Podcast: CRISPR advances, HIV cures and a perfect predator for superbugs

CRISPR got an upgrade. ‘Prime editing’ offers more accurate ‘search-and-replace’

Viewpoint: Moving forward with human gene editing requires scientists to ‘educate, engage, and empower’ the public, policymakers

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Viewpoint: Netflix’s new horror movie ‘Eli’ is a fright. But why did they have to ‘tarnish gene therapy’?

Gene therapy pioneer James Wilson makes a comeback after disastrous start

Gene editing used in China in a failed but promising attempt to cure HIV

Health & Wellness

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How the pursuit of better education, career opportunities may be creating regional genetic inequalities

Bangladesh could approve GMO Golden Rice in November 2019—after 10-year delay caused by regulation, activism

Foodborne illnesses strike almost 48 million Americans annually. Do we need better food safety testing?

New Breeding Techniques

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Fighting climate change with gene editing: Can we slash cows’ methane production?

Efforts to block CRISPR crop cultivation in Australia unlikely to gain political support, parliament member says

‘Tuning’ plant flowering signals with CRISPR could yield heartier crops suited to harsh environments

Personal Genomics

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How the pursuit of better education, career opportunities may be creating regional genetic inequalities

Why the genetic database GEDmatch represents a ‘security risk’ for the US

ISIS leader al-Baghdadi’s remains may have been identified with new rapid DNA testing technology

Science of the Future

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Viewpoint: AI can revolutionize drug development if we can learn to trust it

Extraterrestrial babies? Scientists want to know how microgravity would affect human reproduction

Futurist Jamie Metzl: How genetic engineering could help us live longer

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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UK could tackle sustainability challenges post Brexit with GMO crops, farmer’s union chief says

Manipulating sugar production in plant leaves could boost photosynthesis, crop yields

Can TELA maize solve the acute food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa?

Synthetic Biology

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Podcast: Can we ‘outsmart’ cancer with synthetic biology? Dr. Tim Lu talks customized disease treatments

Meet the ‘flavorists’: Food chemists who make plant-based Beyond, Impossible burgers taste like ‘meat’

Create a fetus without an egg or sperm? Researchers have done it with mice