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GLP Features

How biotechnology over-regulation harms farmers, boosts food costs and fuels inflation

How biotechnology over-regulation harms farmers, boosts food costs and fuels inflation

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it's causing and the activists behind it

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it’s causing and the activists behind it

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya

ancient genomes reveal ancient genetic variants

How humans adapt: Research on $1,000 ancient genomes reveals how genetic variants swept through populations

Christian Huber, Ray Tobler, Yassine Souilmi

Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming

Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they're not great for losing weight either

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they’re not great for losing weight either

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of 'bioengineered' food labels

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of ‘bioengineered’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers

Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers

Fletcher Reveley, Kitra Cahana

Featured Articles

How biotechnology over-regulation harms farmers, boosts food costs and fuels inflation

How biotechnology over-regulation harms farmers, boosts food costs and fuels inflation

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it's causing and the activists behind it

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it’s causing and the activists behind it

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya

Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming

Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming

ancient genomes reveal ancient genetic variants

How humans adapt: Research on $1,000 ancient genomes reveals how genetic variants swept through populations

Christian Huber, Ray Tobler, Yassine Souilmi

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they're not great for losing weight either

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they’re not great for losing weight either

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of 'bioengineered' food labels

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of ‘bioengineered’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Viewpoint: What role should industry have in refashioning Europe’s food system?

Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers

Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers

Fletcher Reveley, Kitra Cahana

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GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of 'bioengineered' food labels

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of ‘bioengineered’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | February 9, 2023

Podcast: Gene-edited mixed salad greens are coming in 2023, one of the first CRISPR foods to be released

Podcast: Gene-edited mixed salad greens are coming in 2023, one of the first CRISPR foods to be released

Willie Vogt | February 6, 2023

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Viewpoint: How militant environmentalists deceived the public into believing glyphosate is cancerous

Gérard Kafadaroff | Atlantico

China’s cloned super-cows can produce 100,000 tons of milk per cow — 30% more than U.S dairy cattle

Hu Dongmei | China Daily

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

Chandre Dharna-Wardana | RealClearMarkets

‘USDA has been aware for years that its oversight of organic food fraud has been a massive failure’. Here’s what’s needed

Baylen Linnekin | Reason

What might dogs eat in a post-meat era ushered in by climate change?

Coco Liu | Time

Do consumers accept gene-edited foods? Sharing health and environmental benefits does not soften resistance, research finds

Bindu Paudel, David Just, Deepthi Kolady, Evert Van der Sluis | Agribusiness

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Publicity stunt? Chinese embryo-tinkering scientist supports limitations on gene editing embryos — but refuses to discuss his 2018 CRISPR experiment

Smriti Mallapaty | Nature

Psychologist Steven Pinker: ‘Language is a window to the human mind’

Ross Pomeroy | Big Think

‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years

Aylin Woodward | Wall Street Journal

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

Rebecca Robbins, Stephanie Nolen | New York Times

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ under the microscope: Could a zombie fungus really infect humans?

John Brownstein, Youri Benadjaoud | ABC News

Nootropics: No evidence over-the-counter supplements preserve memory — and they may be dangerous

Louise Bezich | PhillyVoice

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

‘USDA has been aware for years that its oversight of organic food fraud has been a massive failure’. Here’s what’s needed

Europe is mulling a food sustainability label. Here’s how it might work

Ancestry & Evolution

‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years

‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ under the microscope: Could a zombie fungus really infect humans?

How humans adapt: Research on $1,000 ancient genomes reveals how genetic variants swept through populations

Biomedicine & Disease

Drug research is plagued with extreme costs and high failure rates. Here’s how genetic data could transform how we develop medications?

Drug research is plagued with extreme costs and high failure rates. Here’s how genetic data could transform how we develop medications

Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot?

‘3D printer for your body’: Bioprinted tumors could help doctors target cancer more effectively

Biotech Communications

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it's causing and the activists behind it

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it’s causing and the activists behind it

Do consumers accept gene-edited foods? Sharing health and environmental benefits does not soften resistance, research finds

Europe is mulling a food sustainability label. Here’s how it might work

Brain / Neuroscience

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Nootropics: No evidence over-the-counter supplements preserve memory — and they may be dangerous

Evoking Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Fly’: Does growing human ‘brains-in-a-dish’ and creating chimeras cross a bioethical line?

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

Chemicals & Pesticides

Europe and Africa may take different stances on pesticides EU regulators have deemed harmful

Europe and Africa may take different stances on pesticides EU regulators have deemed harmful

Mysterious kidney disease epidemic flares up in Central America with climate change and chemicals suspected as drivers

Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues

‘USDA has been aware for years that its oversight of organic food fraud has been a massive failure’. Here’s what's needed

‘USDA has been aware for years that its oversight of organic food fraud has been a massive failure’. Here’s what’s needed

Natural crops untouched by human tinkering? Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and brussels sprouts are genetically-altered variants of the Brassica family

Here is how agriculture has evolved over the centuries… and how the science of farming continues to change

‘Obesity is way more complex than we thought’: Risk of being overweight likely influenced by what happened in the womb

‘Obesity is way more complex than we thought’: Risk of being overweight likely influenced by what happened in the womb

‘When we exercise, we’re not just doing it for ourselves’: Why going on a run today could benefit your future grandkids

How different is your real age from what your genes predict?

Gene Editing / CRISPR

What guardrails should be set when using gene editing to improve our species? March global meeting of scientists will address

What guardrails should be set when using gene editing to improve our species? March global meeting of scientists will address

‘Garage scientists’ can biohack their way to the newest health craze — and potentially make bioweapons. Should we be worried?

‘Perfect human’? Genetics researchers ponder ethical consequences of tinkering with human DNA

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

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

Zinc fingers: New AI-powered biotech innovation could offer unique advantages over CRISPR when building gene-editing disease therapies

Single shot genetic cures are coming. Will insurance companies pay for these multi-million dollar therapies?

Health & Wellness

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they're not great for losing weight either

Rethinking artificial sweeteners? Fake sugars may not cause cancer but they’re not great for losing weight either

‘Love hormone’ in doubt? Research on monogamous prairie voles raises doubts about oxytocin’s role in social bonding

All in your head? Long COVID has been dismissed by some as a psychological phenomenon and not a medical condition. Here’s why they are wrong

New Breeding Techniques

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Do consumers accept gene-edited foods? Sharing health and environmental benefits does not soften resistance, research finds

Facing global food shortages, will ESG investing embrace sustainable gene-edited crops — or continue to reject biotech?

Control harmful insect populations using CRISPR gene editing? Here’s how it could work

Personal Genomics

Drug research is plagued with extreme costs and high failure rates. Here’s how genetic data could transform how we develop medications?

Drug research is plagued with extreme costs and high failure rates. Here’s how genetic data could transform how we develop medications

The $100 genome: What breaking this accessibility barrier means for the future of genetic testing

‘We’ve found 1-in-a-million type of cancers’: A common prenatal blood test accidentally identifies rare tumors

Science of the Future

Social justice environmental activists move to block gene editing to control invasive species and promote biodiversity. Here’s why they’re misguided

Micro-algae a panacea for sustainability woes? Microorganisms have the ability to treat wastewater, eat up plastic, feed plants, produce food, and control pests

No extinct species has yet been brought back to life. Not discouraged, Colossal Biosciences adds the Dodo to its list of de-extinction targets

Sustainability & Climate

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

With Kenya’s tentative embrace of growing GM products, Uganda faces a resurgent anti-GMO movement. Here’s the havoc it’s causing and the activists behind it

Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming

Synthetic Biology

Will China’s latest Five Year Plan jump start food made with synthetic biology?

Will China’s latest Five Year Plan jump start food made with synthetic biology?

Sustainable eating: Will politics slow adoption of cultivated foods and other technological innovations?

Are plant-based meats a healthy, sustainable alternative to traditional cuts — or is it just good marketing?