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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

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Charles Benbrook: Agricultural economist and consultant for the organic industry and anti-biotechnology advocacy groups

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

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

GLP Podcast: Don't 'cancel' Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

Rebuffing activist claims, USDA confirms American-grown fruits and vegetables are free of harmful trace pesticides

Rebuffing activist claims, USDA confirms American-grown fruits and vegetables are free of harmful trace pesticides

Cameron English

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Cameron English

Viewpoint: Will there ever be organic GMOs? Here’s the science behind why it it's a good idea

Viewpoint: Will there ever be organic GMOs? Here’s the science behind why it it’s a good idea

Matthew Bernard

Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Can what we eat change the world?

Can what we eat change the world?

Henrik Lagerlund

Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Anna Krylov, Jay Tanzman

Featured Articles

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Charles Benbrook: Agricultural economist and consultant for the organic industry and anti-biotechnology advocacy groups

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

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

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

GLP Podcast: Don't 'cancel' Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Rebuffing activist claims, USDA confirms American-grown fruits and vegetables are free of harmful trace pesticides

Rebuffing activist claims, USDA confirms American-grown fruits and vegetables are free of harmful trace pesticides

Cameron English

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Cameron English

Viewpoint: Will there ever be organic GMOs? Here’s the science behind why it it's a good idea

Viewpoint: Will there ever be organic GMOs? Here’s the science behind why it it’s a good idea

Matthew Bernard

Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Can what we eat change the world?

Can what we eat change the world?

Henrik Lagerlund

Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Anna Krylov, Jay Tanzman

GLP Podcasts More...

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Kevin Folta, Trish Jordan | February 10, 2022

GLP Podcast: Don't 'cancel' Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | February 10, 2022

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

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Can we genetically engineer soil bacteria to adapt to climate change?

David Levin | Stanford University

Responding to ethical and social concerns, researchers offer framework to distinguish between GMOs and gene edited crops

Hokkaido University

The quest for delicious decaf coffee could whet the appetite for gene editing

Thomas Merritt | Cornell Alliance for Science

Viewpoint: With Africa embracing genetically modified crops, efforts should expand to include small-scale farmers

Brian Dowd-Uribe, Matthew Schnurr | Devex

Gene drives in development could alter mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of disease. That raises ethical concerns

How would shifting to a primarily plant-based diet impact climate change projections?

Stanford University

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Mom brain: How can science explain ‘maternal instincts’?

Theresa Sullivan Barger | Discover

Dementia risks rise if you suffer from midlife chronic diseases

Judy George | MedPage Today

7,000 rare diseases: CRISPR gene editing-based therapy has led to cures and offers hope for 30 million Americans

Meeri Kim | Washington Post

Divide over competitive future of transgender swimmers deepens as NCAA clears way for Penn’s Lia Thomas to compete in championships

Ellie Rushing | Philadelphia Inquirer

Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?

Gretchen Reynolds | New York Times

Neuroscience’s big question: What is consciousness?

Kristen French | Nautilus

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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

Why is gene editing so controversial in food and farming?

Why is gene editing so controversial in food and farming?

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Viewpoint: ‘Herbicides reduce the cost of food production by half and triple yields’: Mass bans on synthetic chemicals would open the doors to 32 invasive species that threaten African crops

Ancestry & Evolution

Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?

Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?

How culture and technology are shaping human evolution

Here is evidence of recent human evolution. Will it help us adapt to rapid climate change?

Biomedicine & Disease

Ivermectin conundrum: Why are so many doctors and their patients still pushing this ineffective treatment?

Ivermectin conundrum: Why are so many doctors and their patients still pushing this ineffective treatment?

Biosecurity threats from engineered pathogens is increasing. How vulnerable are we — and what can be done?

Totally paralyzed but able to walk? Spinal cord implants and electrical stimulation performing miracles

Biotech Communications

What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge

What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge

Gene drives in development could alter mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of disease. That raises ethical concerns

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Brain / Neuroscience

Neuroscience’s big question: What is consciousness?

Neuroscience’s big question: What is consciousness?

Video: How do insects with tiny brains engage in complex human-like behavior?

What is the science behind heartbreak?

Chemicals & Pesticides

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Perch Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?

Rebuffing activist claims, USDA confirms American-grown fruits and vegetables are free of harmful trace pesticides

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

Viewpoint: Anti-chemical campaigners misleadingly invoke a looming ‘insect apocalypse’ to justify demands to junk targeted, synthetic pesticides

How would shifting to a primarily plant-based diet impact climate change projections?

Viewpoint: Challenging organic advocates’ claims that agroecology and regenerative farming can sustainably feed France

How epigenetic tweaks can increase corn and soybean yields

How epigenetic tweaks can increase corn and soybean yields

‘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

Gene Editing / CRISPR

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

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

‘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

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

Divide over competitive future of transgender swimmers deepens as NCAA clears way for Penn’s Lia Thomas to compete in championships

Divide over competitive future of transgender swimmers deepens as NCAA clears way for Penn’s Lia Thomas to compete in championships

Ivermectin conundrum: Why are so many doctors and their patients still pushing this ineffective treatment?

Active grandparents theory: Has evolution programmed us to remain physically active late in life?

New Breeding Techniques

Responding to ethical and social concerns, researchers offer framework to distinguish between GMOs and gene edited crops

Responding to ethical and social concerns, researchers offer framework to distinguish between GMOs and gene edited crops

The quest for delicious decaf coffee could whet the appetite for gene editing

Viewpoint: With Africa embracing genetically modified crops, efforts should expand to include small-scale farmers

Personal Genomics

Cure for cancer? Two patients leukemia free a decade after breakthrough gene therapy

Cure for cancer? Two patients leukemia free a decade after breakthrough gene therapy

‘Unproven and unethical’: Ethicists raise questions about human embryo risk analysis tests

How do gene-environment interactions drive autism?

Science of the Future

How culture and technology are shaping human evolution

How culture and technology are shaping human evolution

Breeding genetically modified cloned pigs for human transplants

Robosexuals: How close are we to the inevitable era of artificial intelligence-driven sex robots?

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Responding to ethical and social concerns, researchers offer framework to distinguish between GMOs and gene edited crops

Responding to ethical and social concerns, researchers offer framework to distinguish between GMOs and gene edited crops

How would shifting to a primarily plant-based diet impact climate change projections?

GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

Synthetic Biology

Breeding genetically modified cloned pigs for human transplants

Breeding genetically modified cloned pigs for human transplants

Viewpoint: Essential to feeding the world, synthetic fertilizers have negative environmental impacts. Here’s how genetic engineering can change that

China’s ‘future foods’: Lab grown meat and plant-based eggs on 5-year plan food and agriculture policy table