Genetic Literacy Project | Science Not Ideology

regulation tracker featured image x

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.

organic donor featured image x outlined

Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker

This GLP project maps contributions by foundations to anti-biotech activists and compares it to pro-GMO industry spending.

autism spectrum disorder managing behaviour

Viewpoint: Should autism be treated as an illness that should be cured?

twitter ee ddc

Does our perception of the world reflect reality? Solving the problem of consciousness

impossible burger vs beyond burger

Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could

Humans vs. apes: Women are the secret factor explaining how we evolved to populate the world

Podcast: Beepocalypse debunked; Ban CRISPR babies? Anti-science views slow COVID-19 herd immunity

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

natural remedies

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups push ‘natural’ COVID cures, deny pandemic-fighting biotech solutions

imperi e d ae d

Video: Is there an upside to soaring COVID-19 cases?

July 12, 2020

Featured Articles

autism spectrum disorder managing behaviour

Viewpoint: Should autism be treated as an illness that should be cured?

images

Viewpoint: Organic food represents a ‘reactionary’ ideology that doesn’t promote health or sustainable farming⁠—and should not be subsidized

twitter ee ddc

Does our perception of the world reflect reality? Solving the problem of consciousness

impossible burger vs beyond burger

Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could

Humans vs. apes: Women are the secret factor explaining how we evolved to populate the world

Podcast: Beepocalypse debunked; Ban CRISPR babies? Anti-science views slow COVID-19 herd immunity

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

natural remedies

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups push ‘natural’ COVID cures, deny pandemic-fighting biotech solutions

imperi e d ae d

Video: Is there an upside to soaring COVID-19 cases?

GLP Podcasts More...

Podcast: Beepocalypse debunked; Ban CRISPR babies? Anti-science views slow COVID-19 herd immunity

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | July 8, 2020

Talking Biotech

Talking Biotech: Where did GMOs come from? Former Monsanto scientist Robb Fraley recounts the advent of biotech crops

Kevin Folta, Robb Fraley | June 17, 2020

Genetics Unzipped

Podcast: Let the light shine—Tackling eye disease with gene therapy

Chloe Stanton, Georgia Mills, Kat Arney, Ken Reid, Robin Ali, Roly Megaw | July 2, 2020

Trending

GLP Library

The GLP Library contains over 25,000 articles—it is among the largest online repositories of genetics knowledge

Latest Articles by Subject

Agricultural Laws & Regs

organic milk edd lg

Viewpoint: All milk is ‘non-GMO,’ and 4 other facts you should know before you go grocery shopping

Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could

Deal to limit future glyphosate suits against Bayer collapsing, but $10.9 billion settlement likely to hold

Ancestry & Evolution

maxresdefault

Humans vs. apes: Women are the secret factor explaining how we evolved to populate the world

Vikings were not the first global voyagers. Bronze age Norwegians likely sailed the seas 2,000 years before

Why did fatherhood evolve?

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

shutterstock

Homeopathic remedies are just water – so how did this sex-enhancing ‘treatment’ get peer reviewed and published?

Viewpoint: Should autism be treated as an illness that should be cured?

FDA shuts down sales of homeopathic shots containing toxic lead, mercury, strychnine

Biomedicine & Disease

bxorbfaw a

Big risk, big rewards: Betting on RNA to make cheaper, faster coronavirus vaccines

Testing negative for COVID-19 antibodies? Many people still have some protection against the virus

The rich get safer? Developing countries likely last in line to get virus vaccine

Biotech Communications

organic milk edd lg

Viewpoint: All milk is ‘non-GMO,’ and 4 other facts you should know before you go grocery shopping

Viewpoint: Plant-based meats promote veganism in ways animal rights activists never could

Could success of Europe’s only cultivated GMO crop help ease public fear of biotechnology?

Brain / Neuroscience

halo sport headset neuropriming muscle movement brain stimulation training device on the trainer

Brain stimulation could help you get stronger, faster

Viewpoint: Should autism be treated as an illness that should be cured?

Does our perception of the world reflect reality? Solving the problem of consciousness

Chemicals & Pesticides

greening

Natural pesticide claimed as replacement for antibiotics as treatment for citrus greening disease decimating US citrus industry

Deal to limit future glyphosate suits against Bayer collapsing, but $10.9 billion settlement likely to hold

Will the Bayer glyphosate settlement fall apart? Judge says he may reject $10.9 billion Monsanto Roundup agreement, saying future plaintiffs might be hurt

Screen Shot at PM

Food crops engineered to behave like drought-tolerant succulents may better adapt to climate change

US GMO crop cultivation accelerates as farmers gain access to more biotech seeds

European Food Safety Authority rebuffs activist criticism of its safety assessment of insect and herbicide resistant GMO crops

Gene Editing / CRISPR

victoriagray

1 year later, first gene edited sickle cell patient is functionally cured

After CRISPR human embryo experiment goes awry, some call for gene editing restrictions

Gene editing cures hereditary deafness in mice. Are humans next?

colorblind

Gene therapy could restore color vision for people who see the world in shades of gray

Ultimate fitness hack: Imagine being able to build muscles with a gene therapy

What’s holding up gene therapy? Making drugs on a large scale

Health & Wellness

iar wduqiyptaq s fpjw

Summer heat waves can turn common medications deadly

Space-thriving bacteria hold key to quickly and cheaply producing innovative polio vaccine

Does the full moon affect behavior? It does in some animals

New Breeding Techniques

afcceda c c cd fdb a

CRISPR might save Cavendish bananas from extinction—but would it be a long-term solution?

GMO insect-resistant Bt prevents cancer and saves farmers up to $167 million per year, study shows

How biotech-wary regenerative agriculture movement can benefit from CRISPR gene editing

Personal Genomics

zimmer articlelarge

For those with limited genetic knowledge, at-home ancestry tests fuel misconceptions that genes dictate race

China demands DNA from millions of men and boys, raising questions about privacy and consent

Viewpoint: Genetics research was supposed to change human health. Is it time to reconsider investments in the field?

Science of the Future

vframe blu real

How can we better expose ‘silent’ war crimes? Thousands of human rights violations identified through crowdsourced evidence

How to keep virtual reality from taking over real life

Concerned about ‘fake news’? It could get a lot worse with AI

Sustainability / GreenGenes

earth

Farming a ‘climate villain’? IPCC may have inflated greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

AquaBounty US facility grows non-GMO Atlantic salmon as it prepares to produce biotech fish

Ghanaian chief calls for commercialization of GMOs

Synthetic Biology

synthetic biology

Opening the floodgates to synthetic biology innovations in drugs, textiles, agricultural products and advanced materials

Human organ factories? Defense Department seeds Segway inventor Dean Kamen’s ambitious project, but success seems years away

Injecting live bacteria into tumors? Synthetic biology revives a controversial century old cancer cure