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GLP Features

Part 2: How anti-biotechnology activists came to embrace COVID vaccine hesitancy

Part 2: How anti-biotechnology activists came to embrace COVID vaccine hesitancy

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines' vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines’ vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

AC Bushnell, Phil Harvey

Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?

Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

healthy greens x

Are organic foods healthier than conventional foods?

Viewpoint: A psychological deep dive into the minds of COVID vaccine 'refuseniks'

Viewpoint: A psychological deep dive into the minds of COVID vaccine ‘refuseniks’

Richard Redding

Viewpoint: 'It's time to listen to what the data say' — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal

Viewpoint: ‘It’s time to listen to what the data say’ — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal

Joint Statement

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’

‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’

Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business

Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business

Featured Articles

Part 2: How anti-biotechnology activists came to embrace COVID vaccine hesitancy

Part 2: How anti-biotechnology activists came to embrace COVID vaccine hesitancy

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines' vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines’ vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

AC Bushnell, Phil Harvey

Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?

Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

healthy greens x

Are organic foods healthier than conventional foods?

Viewpoint: A psychological deep dive into the minds of COVID vaccine 'refuseniks'

Viewpoint: A psychological deep dive into the minds of COVID vaccine ‘refuseniks’

Richard Redding

Viewpoint: 'It's time to listen to what the data say' — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal

Viewpoint: ‘It’s time to listen to what the data say’ — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal

Joint Statement

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’

‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’

Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business

Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business

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GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | October 21, 2021

GLP podcast: Scrutinizing anti-GMO 'rock star' Vandana Shiva's recent 'Earth Democracy' lecture

GLP podcast: Scrutinizing anti-GMO ‘rock star’ Vandana Shiva’s recent ‘Earth Democracy’ lecture

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | October 14, 2021

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Uganda edges toward accepting biotechnology as climate challenges mount

Richard Wetaya | Cornell Alliance for Science

Viewpoint: ‘Naked Organic’ campaign? France’s uncompetitive organic farming industry propped up by government subsidies

Laurent Pahpy | Agriculture et Environnement

Learning from the GMO stigmatization debacle: Why we shouldn’t call cell-based protein ‘lab meat’

Jan Dutkiewicz, Sarah Garland | New Republic

‘Protein expansion’: Modified wheat developed in England and Chile could increase yields by 12%

Samantha Martin | University of York

To feed billions more people in coming decades, bugs will likely be on the global menu

Switching from beef to chicken can have big environmental benefits — but it also means many more animals to miserable lives and death

Hannah Ritchie | Wired

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Chronic pain relief: Insights into how the brain works fuels dramatic treatment improvements

Nathaniel Frank | Washington Post

What can our eyes reveal about sexual orientation?

Ross Pomeroy | Real Clear Science

Why technology alone will not save us from climate change — Book review: The Human Scaffold

Jon Magnuson | EarthBeat

Excavations in Israel have sparked renewed debate over why Homo erectus migrated out of Africa

Josie Glausiusz | Smithsonian

What was there before the Big Bang? Here’s a theory that could satisfy both secular and religious viewpoints

Avi Loeb | Scientific American

Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans

Matt Fuchs | Washington Post

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GLP Library Search

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

Viewpoint: 'Naked Organic' campaign? France's uncompetitive organic farming industry propped up by government subsidies

Viewpoint: ‘Naked Organic’ campaign? France’s uncompetitive organic farming industry propped up by government subsidies

Learning from the GMO stigmatization debacle: Why we shouldn’t call cell-based protein ‘lab meat’

Sri Lanka softens its agrochemical ban and organic farming shift as tea production dives

Ancestry & Evolution

A glow-in-the-dark animal? Meet the springhare

A glow-in-the-dark animal? Meet the springhare

Footprints in the sand: Six-million-year old pre-human prints discovered in Crete are oldest ever found

‘The future is in the past’: How genetic studies are illuminating early journeys of indigenous Hawaiians

Biomedicine & Disease

Viewpoint: 'Breakthrough' malaria vaccine garners mixed reviews

Viewpoint: ‘Breakthrough’ malaria vaccine garners mixed reviews

COVID vaccine protection: How long can we expect immunity to last?

Mix and match COVID booster shots have been approved. Should you switch? Here’s a guide

Biotech Communications

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines' vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines’ vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm

Why do some minority groups have reservations about the COVID vaccine?

Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?

Brain / Neuroscience

What can our eyes reveal about sexual orientation?

What can our eyes reveal about sexual orientation?

Viewpoint: A psychological deep dive into the minds of COVID vaccine ‘refuseniks’

NFL agrees to end race-based dementia testing for concussion settlements in $1 billion agreement

Chemicals & Pesticides

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

GLP Podcast: Smoking prevents COVID? CRISPR and nuclear weapons; Bayer wins first glyphosate case

Viewpoint: UK’s ‘unreasoned ban pesticides approach’ must give way to an informed debate on which technologies best serve society and the environment

Risk, hazard and the precautionary principle: Why Europe gets crop biotechnology and chemical regulation so wrong

Meet Kernza, the climate change-fighting seed: Wheatgrass perfect for baking that sustainably grows back year after year

Meet Kernza, the climate change-fighting seed: Wheatgrass perfect for baking that sustainably grows back year after year

What’s on the menu in a climate-sensitive diet — and will we eat it?

Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO activists persist in their fear tactics targeting the African public’ — Here’s the damage they wreak in the less developed world

How epigenetics is poised to revolutionize food, farming and animal agriculture

How epigenetics is poised to revolutionize food, farming and animal agriculture

How tall will your children be? Here are the nature versus nurture factors

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

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Treating manic depression and mental illness is the ‘final frontier’ of CRISPR gene therapy

Treating manic depression and mental illness is the ‘final frontier’ of CRISPR gene therapy

Breakthrough Indian gene editing experiment restores vision to legally blind people

Life is a genetic lottery — but that’s a far cry from saying our traits are determined or fixed

mRNA COVID vaccines were decades in the making

mRNA COVID vaccines were decades in the making

‘It would be huge to see my granddaughter’: In an attempt to cure blindness, scientists use CRISPR to edit DNA inside patients’ bodies

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

Health & Wellness

Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans

Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans

Viewpoint: ‘Breakthrough’ malaria vaccine garners mixed reviews

Pesticide residues ‘do not pose a concern for public health’ — FDA reaffirms safety of conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables

New Breeding Techniques

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

Overfishing and climate change have decimated Japan’s fishing industry. Gene edited fish is poised to rescue it

Viewpoint: ‘A technology we simply cannot afford to miss’ — Health benefits likely to flow from England’s decision to allow gene-edited crops

Personal Genomics

14 genes that cause obesity identified, opening the door to targeted, personalized treatments

14 genes that cause obesity identified, opening the door to targeted, personalized treatments

Do broccoli, kale or brussel sprouts taste bitter to your kids? Mouth microbiome could explain why many children dislike brassica vegetables

The first child selected as an embryo on the basis of its ‘polygenic risk score’ is now 16 months old

Science of the Future

Why technology alone will not save us from climate change — Book review: The Human Scaffold

Why technology alone will not save us from climate change — Book review: The Human Scaffold

To feed billions more people in coming decades, bugs will likely be on the global menu

Switching from beef to chicken can have big environmental benefits — but it also means many more animals to miserable lives and death

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Why technology alone will not save us from climate change — Book review: The Human Scaffold

Why technology alone will not save us from climate change — Book review: The Human Scaffold

Precautionaria: Risk-averse Europe is undermining innovation in sustainable farming and battling climate change

To feed billions more people in coming decades, bugs will likely be on the global menu

Synthetic Biology

Precision fermentation: How humans harness microbe-based biochemistry to make food more delicious

Precision fermentation: How humans harness microbe-based biochemistry to make food more delicious

‘Lab grown coffee can be a reality’: Cell-derived coffee on the horizon as demand for java soars, exceeding global supply

5 ways synthetic biology can protect vulnerable animal and plant species