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GLP Features

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

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?

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?

Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture

Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture

Viewpoint: How the anti-GMO movement devolved from dangerous to irksome to irrelevant

Viewpoint: How the anti-GMO movement devolved from dangerous to irksome to irrelevant

Cameron English

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

David McLelland

Trash transformation: Here’s how researchers are turning plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

Trash transformation: Here’s how researchers are turning plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

Joanna Sadler, Kevin Folta

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Extreme heat and evolution: We adapted to handle a vast range of temperatures but current conditions are pushing limits

Extreme heat and evolution: We adapted to handle a vast range of temperatures but current conditions are pushing limits

Viewpoint: How COVID has altered the future of US agriculture and the role of biotechnology

Viewpoint: How COVID has altered the future of US agriculture and the role of biotechnology

Featured Articles

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

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?

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?

Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture

Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture

Viewpoint: How the anti-GMO movement devolved from dangerous to irksome to irrelevant

Viewpoint: How the anti-GMO movement devolved from dangerous to irksome to irrelevant

Cameron English

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

David McLelland

Trash transformation: Here’s how researchers are turning plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

Trash transformation: Here’s how researchers are turning plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

Joanna Sadler, Kevin Folta

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Extreme heat and evolution: We adapted to handle a vast range of temperatures but current conditions are pushing limits

Extreme heat and evolution: We adapted to handle a vast range of temperatures but current conditions are pushing limits

Viewpoint: How COVID has altered the future of US agriculture and the role of biotechnology

Viewpoint: How COVID has altered the future of US agriculture and the role of biotechnology

GLP Podcasts More...

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 | July 28, 2021

Podcast: Reparations approved for survivors of 20,000 Californians forcibly sterilized in early 20th century

Podcast: Reparations approved for survivors of 20,000 Californians forcibly sterilized in early 20th century

Mina Kim | July 26, 2021

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Kenyan small farmers look to genetically engineered disease resistant cassava to improve food security

Impossible Foods taking on mega-huge chicken nugget market with its GMO, plant-based alternative

Deena Shanker | Bloomberg

Vulnerable populations in the developing world could benefit most from gene-driven technology revolution in agriculture

Hindustan Times

Here’s how Europe plans to cut agriculture carbon emissions

Gerardo Fortuna | EurActiv

In search of sustainability: EU scientists urge policymakers to embrace both organic farming and genetically engineered crops

University of Bayreuth

Philippines approves GMO insect-resistant Bt eggplant, rejecting Greenpeace objections

Che Palicte | Philippine News Agency

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

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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

In search of sustainability: EU scientists urge policymakers to embrace both organic farming and genetically engineered crops

In search of sustainability: EU scientists urge policymakers to embrace both organic farming and genetically engineered crops

Philippines approves GMO insect-resistant Bt eggplant, rejecting Greenpeace objections

Greenpeace denounces Philippines’ approval of nutrition-enhanced GMO Golden Rice

Ancestry & Evolution

How did humans transition from saber-tooth tiger prey to masters of the planet?

How did humans transition from saber-tooth tiger prey to masters of the planet?

Evolutionary science has seen a tsunami of new revelations — but have they upended the central tenets of Darwinism?

Humans have been addicted to carbs since before we even domesticated crops

Biomedicine & Disease

If you've received a COVID vaccine, how worried should you be about catching the Delta variant?

If you’ve received a COVID vaccine, how worried should you be about catching the Delta variant?

California and New York City mandate COVID vaccines or regular testing for government workers

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

Biotech Communications

Still unsure about the COVID shot? Here are 10 common vaccine myths dispelled

Still unsure about the COVID shot? Here are 10 common vaccine myths dispelled

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?

Viewpoint: Stanford is a world-class science institution … except when it comes to critical thinking about the ‘sustainability myth’ of organic agriculture

Brain / Neuroscience

Reckoning with lingering sluggishness from ‘pandemic brain’

Reckoning with lingering sluggishness from ‘pandemic brain’

Elephants are clever problem solvers — and they have distinct personalities, too

What’s the difference between dementia, Alzheimer’s, and age-related memory loss?

Chemicals & Pesticides

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

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

Re-examining 10 science-challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful

Viewpoint: ‘Europe has abandoned science-based assessments’ — Kenya and the rest of Africa face economic devastation, mass starvation if they adopt proposal to ban all products banned in the EU

gmo

Re-examining 10 science-challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful

‘All positives’: 17 years after GM corn introduction, the Philippines shows sharp increase in output and household incomes — with the poor benefiting the most

Activists and ‘celebrity figures’ are turning public opinion against crop biotechnology in Mexico

‘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

Viewpoint: Might CRISPR gene editing ‘unleash dangerous mutants, designer babies and new weapons of mass destruction?’

Viewpoint: Might CRISPR gene editing ‘unleash dangerous mutants, designer babies and new weapons of mass destruction?’

Video: Curious about the full implications of the CRISPR gene editing revolution? Here’s a primer

Saving the world — or possibly destroying it? What does the future of CRISPR genetic engineering portend?

‘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

GMO breakthrough: Philippines becomes first country to approve nutrition-enhanced Golden Rice for commercial sale; Bangladesh next

GMO breakthrough: Philippines becomes first country to approve nutrition-enhanced Golden Rice for commercial sale; Bangladesh next

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Extreme heat and evolution: We adapted to handle a vast range of temperatures but current conditions are pushing limits

New Breeding Techniques

Vulnerable populations in the developing world could benefit most from gene-driven technology revolution in agriculture

Vulnerable populations in the developing world could benefit most from gene-driven technology revolution in agriculture

In search of sustainability: EU scientists urge policymakers to embrace both organic farming and genetically engineered crops

Viewpoint: Still believe that GMOs and gene edited crops pose more harm than good? Time for a rethink

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

Foie gras without the guilt: Lab-grown duck and goose liver in the works

Foie gras without the guilt: Lab-grown duck and goose liver in the works

Consistent global regulations essential to bring cell-based meat into the mainstream

‘Precision microbiome analysis’ diets — based on almost no rigorous research — see surge in popularity

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Impossible Foods taking on mega-huge chicken nugget market with its GMO, plant-based alternative

Impossible Foods taking on mega-huge chicken nugget market with its GMO, plant-based alternative

Here’s how Europe plans to cut agriculture carbon emissions

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?

Synthetic Biology

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

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

Trash transformation: Here’s how researchers are turning plastic waste into vanilla flavoring

Foie gras without the guilt: Lab-grown duck and goose liver in the works