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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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GLP 2021 Annual Report

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GLP Features

How crop gene editing increases nutrition and sustainability

How crop gene editing increases nutrition and sustainability

Prudent predators: Can humans mimic animal evolution to avoid over-exploiting our natural resources?

Prudent predators: Can humans mimic animal evolution to avoid over-exploiting our natural resources?

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

Roma 'gypsy' people of Europe have long held a fascination for geneticists. Here’s why

Roma ‘gypsy’ people of Europe have long held a fascination for geneticists. Here’s why

Featured Articles

How crop gene editing increases nutrition and sustainability

How crop gene editing increases nutrition and sustainability

Prudent predators: Can humans mimic animal evolution to avoid over-exploiting our natural resources?

Prudent predators: Can humans mimic animal evolution to avoid over-exploiting our natural resources?

Roma 'gypsy' people of Europe have long held a fascination for geneticists. Here’s why

Roma ‘gypsy’ people of Europe have long held a fascination for geneticists. Here’s why

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

GLP Podcasts More...

Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions

Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions

Alok Jha, Jennifer Doudna | May 3, 2022

GLP Podcast: Vaccine denier vs skeptic; Food changes DNA? Biotech will help solve next health crisis

GLP Podcast: Vaccine denier vs skeptic; Food changes DNA? Biotech will help solve next health crisis

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | April 28, 2022

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Insect-resistant GMO cowpea trials wow Nigerian farmers with jumping yields and lower costs — but other farmers remain hesitant

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Ebuka Onyeji | Premium Times

Renewable bioplastics offer sustainable alternative to petroleum-based products

Babetta Marrone | Santa Fe New Mexican

‘Gene edited crops are necessary to sustainably feed the world’ — German agroecology and organic advocate challenges his own community

Jonas Ingold | Bauern Zeitung

Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice seeds distributed for planting for the first time in the Philippines

Ronan Zagado | Philippine Rice Research Institute

‘From 12 chemical applications to 2’: Ghanian scientists urge final approval of breakthrough pesticide-reducing GMO cowpea

Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions

Alok Jha, Jennifer Doudna | Economist

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Neurochemical kindness? The more oxytocin in our aging brains, the nicer and happier we are

Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour | Frontiers

Will human biases sink artificial intelligence (AI)?

David Moschella | Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Is cancer a mostly genetic disease phenomenon?

University of Alberta

What is life like on other planets? Microorganisms provide possible clues

Karin Valentine | Arizona State University

Epidemic of loneliness: Post-COVID update on how emotional isolation damages our health

John Leland | New York Times

‘A real life hyperpolyglot’: The story of a savant who can speak 24 languages (well, more like 33!)

Jessica Contrera | Washington Post

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GLP Library Search

The GLP Library contains over 30,000 articles—it is among the largest online repositories of genetics knowledge

Agricultural Laws & Regs

‘From 12 chemical applications to 2’: Ghanian scientists urge final approval of breakthrough pesticide-reducing GMO cowpea

‘From 12 chemical applications to 2’: Ghanian scientists urge final approval of breakthrough pesticide-reducing GMO cowpea

Sustainable GM farming innovation: How Argentina’s drought-tolerant genetically-engineered wheat reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

With animal feed and food prices soaring across Africa, Kenya relaxes GMO import ban

Ancestry & Evolution

What is life like on other planets? Microorganisms provide possible clues

What is life like on other planets? Microorganisms provide possible clues

Roma ‘gypsy’ people of Europe have long held a fascination for geneticists. Here’s why

‘Almost all crops today have been changed from their original form’: National Academies of Sciences says GMOs just most recent form of food genetic modification

Biomedicine & Disease

Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease

Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease

COVID nasal vaccines nearing rollout could ease resistance

Pilot GM mosquito tests to control disease in the Florida Keys worked, Oxitec says. Here’s how they did it

Biotech Communications

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables — (And they are all safe!)

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s scaremongering Dirty Dozen list of ‘pesticide coated’ fruits and veggies loses influence

‘Honeybees are not endangered and are doing just fine’: Xerces Society says it’s time to end public confusion, refocus on native species

Brain / Neuroscience

‘A real life hyperpolyglot’: The story of a savant who can speak 24 languages (well, more like 33!)

‘A real life hyperpolyglot’: The story of a savant who can speak 24 languages (well, more like 33!)

Why apathy is often the first symptom of Alzheimer’s

Move, talk and touch: Brain-reading implants are revolutionizing life for paralyzed people

Chemicals & Pesticides

‘From 12 chemical applications to 2’: Ghanian scientists urge final approval of breakthrough pesticide-reducing GMO cowpea

‘From 12 chemical applications to 2’: Ghanian scientists urge final approval of breakthrough pesticide-reducing GMO cowpea

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s scaremongering Dirty Dozen list of ‘pesticide coated’ fruits and veggies loses influence

Viewpoint: Are American farmers overusing neonicotinoid-coated seeds and harming the environment?

Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology activists claim Western corporations ‘colonize’ the developing world. Here’s why they are wrong

Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology activists claim Western corporations ‘colonize’ the developing world. Here’s why they are wrong

Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking

Age of eco-terrorism: Why are activists attacking the most productive part of our food industry — modern agriculture?

Nature vs nurture? ‘Culture is not a mere moderator of our biology, but a fully fledged cause’

Nature vs nurture? ‘Culture is not a mere moderator of our biology, but a fully fledged cause’

Rwandan genocide permanently altered survivors’ DNA, epigenetic study finds

Black Americans are under-represented in genetic studies. Here’s why that’s an issue — and what’s being done to address it

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Short sleepers: This genetic mutation allows some people to thrive on as little as 4 hours a night

Short sleepers: This genetic mutation allows some people to thrive on as little as 4 hours a night

Where should society draw ethical lines for experimental CRISPR gene therapies that appear able to cure diseases?

As CRISPR baby geneticist He Jiankui exits prison, the future of embryo gene editing becomes more ethically and scientifically confounding

Increasing yields without genetic modification? A bio-spray that silences plant genes is in the works

Increasing yields without genetic modification? A bio-spray that silences plant genes is in the works

Is there an ‘exercise gene’? Scientists believe CRISPR guided gene therapy could help curb muscle loss in elderly people

How early failures dogged gene therapy — and why the future looks so much brighter now

Health & Wellness

How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world

How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world

Most humans eat three meals a day. Is that what’s best for our health?

Viewpoint: Before we ban all PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ — found in products from non-stick frying pans to medical equipment — let’s require ideologically-neutral cost-benefit analysis

New Breeding Techniques

‘Gene edited crops are necessary to sustainably feed the world’ — German agroecology and organic advocate challenges his own community

‘Gene edited crops are necessary to sustainably feed the world’ — German agroecology and organic advocate challenges his own community

Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice seeds distributed for planting for the first time in the Philippines

Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions

Personal Genomics

Some heavy smokers will never get cancer. Here’s why

Some heavy smokers will never get cancer. Here’s why

Nutrigenomics: Can what you eat reprogram your genes?

Short sleepers: This genetic mutation allows some people to thrive on as little as 4 hours a night

Science of the Future

Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease

Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease

Podcast: A decade after CRISPR’s discovery, medicine and farming are undergoing dramatic revolutions

Plant microbiome: Key to weaning agriculture off chemical inputs?

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Insect-resistant GMO cowpea trials wow Nigerian farmers with jumping yields and lower costs — but other farmers remain hesitant

Insect-resistant GMO cowpea trials wow Nigerian farmers with jumping yields and lower costs — but other farmers remain hesitant

Renewable bioplastics offer sustainable alternative to petroleum-based products

‘Gene edited crops are necessary to sustainably feed the world’ — German agroecology and organic advocate challenges his own community

Synthetic Biology

Plant microbiome: Key to weaning agriculture off chemical inputs?

Plant microbiome: Key to weaning agriculture off chemical inputs?

Growing cell-based meat in space? If humans travel intergallactic distances or colonize planets, this is how we might feed ourselves

Viewpoint: Is cell-based meat oversold as a sustainability solution?