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Here’s how AI is protecting bees and helping farmers pollinate crops

Adrian Dyer, Alan Dorin, Malika Nisal Ratnayake

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Viewpoint: Could oil and gas companies transform themselves from carbon-polluting villains to climate healers?

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GLP podcast and video: Glyphosate in Goldfish crackers? COVID vaccines are not in our food; Does marijuana cause schizophrenia?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn

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Ideology-based decision-making and regulatory processes restrict sustainable agricultural innovation in Mexico

Ideology-based decision-making and regulatory processes restrict sustainable agricultural innovation in Mexico

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Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

Viewpoint: How to interpret the crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Viewpoint: How to interpret crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Michael Schulson

Featured Articles

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Here’s how AI is protecting bees and helping farmers pollinate crops

Adrian Dyer, Alan Dorin, Malika Nisal Ratnayake

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Viewpoint: Could oil and gas companies transform themselves from carbon-polluting villains to climate healers?

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GLP podcast and video: Glyphosate in Goldfish crackers? COVID vaccines are not in our food; Does marijuana cause schizophrenia?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn

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Is your dog your doppelgänger? Why pets develop human-like features — or vice versa

Ben Gleeson, Laura Wilson

Ideology-based decision-making and regulatory processes restrict sustainable agricultural innovation in Mexico

cofoe citizens panels

Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

Viewpoint: How to interpret the crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Viewpoint: How to interpret crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Michael Schulson

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Infographic: Did you know the human body is made up of zinc, copper and cobalt? Here are the chemicals that make up who we are

Infographic: Did you know the human body is made up of zinc, copper and cobalt? Here are the chemicals that make up who we are

The human body is a miraculous, well-oiled, and exceptionally complex machine. It requires a multitude of functioning parts to come ...

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Microplastics are widespread across our food supply. Are they a health hazard?

Paul McClure | New Atlas

Viewpoint: The politics of farming affects every American. Here’s why agriculture will be the next presidential election’s big issue

Bill Wirtz | Boston Herald

Belgium joins France in advocating pause in aggressive restrictions on use of agricultural chemicals

Huffington Post

Mythinformation: ‘Fear campaigns from anti-biotech NGOs make it a challenge to even keep products on the market let alone introduce new technologies’

David Zaruk | European Seed

Here’s why much-maligned glyphosate and herbicide-resistant crops are critical to sustainable farming

Laura Rance | Winnipeg Free Press

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

550 children and counting: Danish sperm donor who lied to fertility clinics is banned for creating an ‘unwanted kinship network’

Claire Moses | New York Times

Viewpoint: BMJ editorial on ethical quandaries stirred by human gene editing — ‘Adopting a purely scientific view risks ignoring ethical, societal, and equity considerations’

Sarojini Nadimpally | British Medical Journal (BMJ)

Race for a cure: ‘After decades of neglect, stigma and underfunding, sickle cell is getting the red carpet treatment in science.’ Here’s what that means

Carolyn Johnson | Washington Post

Microsoft claims that its AI has achieved human reasoning skills. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves

Cade Metz | New York Times

10% of the human genome is made up of viruses. Here’s how they helped shape our species’ evolution

Michael Marshall | BBC

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Belgium joins France in advocating pause in aggressive restrictions on use of agricultural chemicals

Cell-based meat: Why the FDA’s cultivated chicken safety clearance is only the first step in popularizing what many consumers still consider ‘just a lab experiment’

GLP podcast and video: Glyphosate in Goldfish crackers? COVID vaccines are not in our food; Does marijuana cause schizophrenia?

Ancestry & Evolution

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Is your dog your doppelgänger? Why pets develop human-like features — or vice versa

Chimpanzee ‘language’ deciphered by scientists

Earliest human footprints ever discovered trace back 300,000 years to first human species to live in cold weather and build shelters: Homo heidelbergensis

Biomedicine & Disease

What we know about the debilitating persistence of long COVID?

What do we know about the debilitating persistence of long COVID?

Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

Personalized pancreatic cancer vaccine that uses mRNA technology to fight tumors show promise

Biotech Communications

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Viewpoint: Less stress, more energy, better digestion? Why expensive ‘superfood powders’ aren’t better than eating your veggies

Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

Brain / Neuroscience

htchnmWhat kick-started the evolution of complex human brains?

What kick-started the evolution of our complex human brains?

Marijuana and psychosis: Cannabis use linked to 30% of diagnoses in young men

Psychological differences between women and men are often the largest in gender egalitarian cultures. Why?

Chemicals & Pesticides

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GLP podcast and video: Glyphosate in Goldfish crackers? COVID vaccines are not in our food; Does marijuana cause schizophrenia?

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

Mexico’s GM corn and glyphosate ban is not just a rejection of science — it’s about a trade pact the country perceives as unfair

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USDA promotes new rules to improve seed industry competition and enhance resiliency of America’s food supply chains

Mexican argument that corn ban does no harm meets US opposition

Mustard greens genetically tweaked to be less bitter will be the first CRISPR edited food available in the US when they reach supermarkets this summer

Treating epilepsy with a keto diet? Sounds far-fetched, but it can work

Treating epilepsy with a keto diet? Sounds far-fetched, but it can work

Epigenetics: How environment impacts health of you, your child — and possibly their children as well

Addressing childhood trauma: Could epigenetic gene editing reduce the likelihood of developing mental illness?

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Here’s how CRISPR gene editing is already revolutionizing medicine

Fear of unintended consequences slows adoption of embryo gene editing

Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago. Here’s how it has revolutionized science

Biocomputers: Human brain cells may run computers of the future

Next generation medicine: Will the people who most need gene therapy and gene-editing tools have access to them?

Million-dollar gene therapies offer salvation for many patients but pose financial challenges for government-funded health care systems

Gene therapy delivered directly to the brain treats extremely rare disease in children

Health & Wellness

Blood dinner: Why are you targeted by mosquitoes but some lucky few are not?

Blood dinner: Why are you targeted by mosquitoes but some lucky few are spared?

Why do people respond to diets differently? Study on a million Americans probes impact of biology, lifestyle and gut microbiome

Would you donate some of your eggs to a stranger if it means you could freeze and keep half of them — for free?

New Breeding Techniques

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Mustard greens genetically tweaked to be less bitter will be the first CRISPR edited food available in the US when they reach supermarkets this summer

A debilitating virus has plagued the cattle industry for decades. Scientists have now gene-edited a calf resistant to the disease

Philippines greenlights gene-edited banana that limits Panama disease and protects against browning

Personal Genomics

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70% of gambling behavior may be driven by genes. A new genetic test may show whether you’re at risk

Why do some people love salty foods? It could be because they ate a fat-rich diet as a child

Personalized genetic cancer treatments key in increasing longevity and quality of life

Science of the Future

What me worry? The rapidly approach era of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) when fake people will outthink humans.

What, me worry? The era of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is rapidly approaching — when ‘fake people’ will outthink humans

Viewpoint: ‘AI could upend war, cyber conflicts — and in the most extreme case — the use of nuclear weapons.’ What might happen if the military embraces artificial intelligence tools?

Intergalactic travel: If we want to explore deep space, humans will have to ‘hibernate like bears’

Sustainability & Climate

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Viewpoint: Could oil and gas companies transform themselves from carbon-polluting villains to climate healers?

Viewpoint: The politics of farming affects every American. Here’s why agriculture will be the next presidential election’s big issue

Here’s why much-maligned glyphosate and herbicide-resistant crops are critical to sustainable farming

Synthetic Biology

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Baby formula shortage crisis: Lab-cultivated human breast milk could fill gaps in ‘vulnerable’ formula supply chains

Electricity from thin air? Energy-producing bacteria has ‘potential to power small, sustainable air-powered devices in the future’

How industrial waste from cheese-making could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels