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GLP Features

Hulu’s Rosemary's Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

Hulu’s Rosemary’s Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

African agricultural scientists cite continent-wide double standard in embracing GM COVID vaccines while blocking GM crops

African agricultural scientists cite continent-wide double standard in embracing GM COVID vaccines while blocking GM crops

Lominda Afedraru

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Susan Goldhaber

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability

Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Allison Kennedy, Kevin Folta

Podcast: By focusing on biotechnology breakthroughs, have scientists overlooked simpler solutions to our food security problems?

Podcast: By focusing on biotechnology breakthroughs, have scientists overlooked simpler solutions to our food security problems?

Hiroshi Ezura, Jennifer Kuzma, Neth Daño

How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

Featured Articles

Hulu’s Rosemary's Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

Hulu’s Rosemary’s Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

African agricultural scientists cite continent-wide double standard in embracing GM COVID vaccines while blocking GM crops

African agricultural scientists cite continent-wide double standard in embracing GM COVID vaccines while blocking GM crops

Lominda Afedraru

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Susan Goldhaber

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability

Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Allison Kennedy, Kevin Folta

Podcast: By focusing on biotechnology breakthroughs, have scientists overlooked simpler solutions to our food security problems?

Podcast: By focusing on biotechnology breakthroughs, have scientists overlooked simpler solutions to our food security problems?

Hiroshi Ezura, Jennifer Kuzma, Neth Daño

How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

GLP Podcasts More...

Podcast: Deploying genetic engineering to save the staple cassava vegetable in Kenya

Podcast: Deploying genetic engineering to save the staple cassava vegetable in Kenya

Douglas Miano, Kevin Folta | July 30, 2021

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Allison Kennedy, Kevin Folta | July 29, 2021

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Facing 30,000 unresolved cancer claims, Bayer plans to pull glyphosate from US lawn and garden market by 2023

Jef Feeley, Tim Loh | Bloomberg

As Uganda’s farm economy languishes, political forces block agricultural biotech innovation

Isaac Khisa | Independent

Learning from the healthcare revolution: How CRISPR and other biotechnologies could help protect our food system from a future plant pandemic

Jaqueline Heard | Fast Company

Universities racing to update curriculums to catch up with technology-driven ‘future food’ revolution

Michael Wolf | Spoon

Meet the ‘disruptive technologies’ revolutionizing aquaculture

Kangning Yue, Yubang Shen | Aquaculture Advocate

A tomato that requires no pesticides to grow?

West Virginia News

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

How dogs and humans developed our symbiotic relationship

Steven Novella | Neurologica

Facial structure and sex: Women can intuitively read features to assess whether a man is interested in a long-term relationship or a casual romp

Psychology Today

The world of ‘designer DNA’ meets the challenge of intractable genetic disorders. Here’s how that story may play out

Carolyn Barber | Scientific American

Simone Biles is suffering from what gymnasts call the ‘twisties.’ It’s a real and dangerous phenomenon

Nicoletta Lanese | Live Science

What makes one embryo ‘better’ than another? Why selecting children through polygenic scoring might not work as intended

Dennis Thompson | Medical Xpress

OCD relief: A genetic-based therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder could be within reach

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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GLP Library Search

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

As Uganda’s farm economy languishes, political forces block agricultural biotech innovation

As Uganda’s farm economy languishes, political forces block agricultural biotech innovation

Lab-grown meat dilemma: Sustainable alternatives to livestock farming held back by patents, reluctance to share research and lack of government support

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Ancestry & Evolution

Facial structure and sex: Women can intuitively read features to assess whether a man is interested in a long-term relationship or a casual romp

Facial structure and sex: Women can intuitively read features to assess whether a man is interested in a long-term relationship or a casual romp

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

Biomedicine & Disease

Pressure mounts on FDA to grant full approval to COVID-19 vaccines

Pressure mounts on FDA to grant full approval to COVID-19 vaccines

OCD relief: A genetic-based therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder could be within reach

‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’: 99.5% of COVID deaths are among those who forgo the shot

Biotech Communications

'These headlines are so goddamn irresponsible in an incredibly dangerous, cynical way': Backlash hits NY Times, Washington Post, NBC News for 'hysterical' Delta COVID coverage

‘These headlines are so goddamn irresponsible in an incredibly dangerous, cynical way’: Backlash hits NY Times, Washington Post, NBC News for ‘hysterical’ Delta COVID coverage

Irrational fears of food irradiation still peddled by ‘environmental’ activists

Viewpoint: Just 12 people are responsible for 76% of Facebook vaccine misinformation. Should the ‘Anti-Vaxxers Disinformation Dozen’ be shut down?

Brain / Neuroscience

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

Viewpoint: Neuriva Plus nonsense — The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik doubles down on ‘snake oil’ brain supplements

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Chemicals & Pesticides

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

Viewpoint: It’s time for a reassessment of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s role in sabotaging glyphosate, one of the world’s most popular — and safest — herbicides

An activist-based PR campaign is poised to claim that the Earth faces a Silent Spring-like ‘insect armageddon.’ Will The New York Times and other media fall for the ‘hysteria con’ once again?

‘What isn’t an endocrine disruptor?’ Silent Spring Institute claims hundreds of common chemicals cause breast cancer — but the science is lacking

Biryani boost: Raft of gene editing innovations can improve rice quality and flavors

Biryani boost: Raft of gene editing innovations can improve rice quality and flavors

Who are the scientists who paved the way to modern crop breeding?

GLP Podcast: Animal gene editing moves ahead in Russia; Biotech eliminates flavorless produce; Edible cholera vaccine coming soon?

‘Genetic pain’: Prince Harry’s comments stir controversial debate over whether we can inherit our parents’ traumas

‘Genetic pain’: Prince Harry’s comments stir controversial debate over whether we can inherit our parents’ traumas

CRISPRoff: Gene editing epigenetic method allows researchers to turn most genes in the human genome on and off without altering DNA sequences

Endometriosis relief: Breakthrough treatment for severe cases on the horizon using epigenetics

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Biryani boost: Raft of gene editing innovations can improve rice quality and flavors

Biryani boost: Raft of gene editing innovations can improve rice quality and flavors

CRISPR gene editing debuts in space, as astronauts study how DNA repairs itself from cosmic radiation

With treatments for COVID still elusive, CRISPR offers promise in preliminary tests

‘Optogenetics’ miracle? Gene therapy and high-tech goggles partially restore sight to man blinded for 40 years

‘Optogenetics’ miracle? Gene therapy and high-tech goggles partially restore sight to man blinded for 40 years

Is science finally getting gene therapy right in the effort to fight intractable diseases?

Infographic: Gene therapy drugs that silence the effects of faulty genes could help tackle Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases

Health & Wellness

What makes one embryo ‘better’ than another? Why selecting children through polygenic scoring might not work as intended

What makes one embryo ‘better’ than another? Why selecting children through polygenic scoring might not work as intended

Pseudoscience takes hold with athletes at the Olympics

Is science really about evidence? How convention trumps new findings on obesity and health

New Breeding Techniques

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

Gene-edited crops made in Latin America, for Latin American needs

How AI and gene editing can combine to revolutionize climate-smart farming

Podcast: By focusing on biotechnology breakthroughs, have scientists overlooked simpler solutions to our food security problems?

Personal Genomics

Viewpoint: What’s the future of individualized medicine when you factor in ‘racial’ and genetic differences?

Viewpoint: What’s the future of individualized medicine when you factor in ‘racial’ and genetic differences?

Study: Quagmire surrounds the use and misuse of race in identifying and preventing health disparities

Black women are six times more likely than White women to develop tumors that lead to breast cancer. Do genetically-based racial differences play a role?

Science of the Future

Meet the ‘disruptive technologies’ revolutionizing aquaculture

Meet the ‘disruptive technologies’ revolutionizing aquaculture

China’s xenotransplantation boom: Gene editing providing modified pig organs for human transplant

Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Meet the ‘disruptive technologies’ revolutionizing aquaculture

Meet the ‘disruptive technologies’ revolutionizing aquaculture

Lab-grown meat dilemma: Sustainable alternatives to livestock farming held back by patents, reluctance to share research and lack of government support

‘Covid exposed so much that was broken’: How can we remake our post-pandemic food system?

Synthetic Biology

Lab-grown meat dilemma: Sustainable alternatives to livestock farming held back by patents, reluctance to share research and lack of government support

Lab-grown meat dilemma: Sustainable alternatives to livestock farming held back by patents, reluctance to share research and lack of government support

Colorants used in food, drugs and cosmetics are often petroleum based. Genetically engineered bacteria could offer a safer solution

Lab grown technology extends far beyond meat — to diamonds, trees and even human bones