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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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Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker

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

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Viewpoint: Why grow GMOs? To prevent cancer, pesticide poisoning and farmer suicides

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Why a coronavirus vaccine ‘October Surprise’ could be an October disaster

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Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

R. Ford Denison

September 20, 2020

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Viewpoint: Why grow GMOs? To prevent cancer, pesticide poisoning and farmer suicides

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‘Disorders of consciousness’: Understanding ‘self’ might be the greatest scientific challenge of our time

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Why a coronavirus vaccine ‘October Surprise’ could be an October disaster

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Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

R. Ford Denison

Podcast: CRISPR-edited weed; opioid addiction vaccine; Africa’s neglected diseases

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Skeletons provide tell-tale glimpses into past mass infections and pandemics

Charlotte Roberts, Gabriel Wrobel, Michael Westaway

Roundup glyphosate weedkiller responsible for the decline in Monarch butterflies? Media and advocacy groups badly misreport study

Andrew Porterfield

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‘Challenge studies’: Should we be testing COVID vaccines by intentionally infecting volunteers?

Viewpoint: Rethinking ‘critical race theory’ — What happens when broad racialist viewpoints ‘invade’ science?

Andreas Bikfalvi, Marcel Kuntz

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Podcast: CRISPR-edited weed; opioid addiction vaccine; Africa’s neglected diseases

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Podcast: Activism’s dark side—Earth Liberation Front bombs ‘GMO’ tree lab, destroys endangered plants instead

Kevin Folta, Toby Bradshaw | August 28, 2020

Genetics Unzipped

Podcast: Where do babies come from? How developmental genetics revealed the secrets of life’s earliest stages

Kat Arney | September 11, 2020

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Should you worry about pesticides in fruits and vegetables? 96.8% of domestic food below legal residue limits, FDA reports

Trump v Biden: Where do the candidates stand on GMOs and other key food issues?

Gene-edited, blight-resistant rice approved by USDA, Colombian regulators

Ancestry & Evolution

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Evolution’s unpredictable dark side: Everything ‘natural’ is not always good

When ‘bones and stones’ are not enough: Genetics fills in the blanks in the story of human evolution

Why do so many dogs eat human poop?

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

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How the World Health Organization fumbled its preparations for a global pandemic

Rushing the roll out of vaccines has led to past US health disasters

‘Challenge studies’: Should we be testing COVID vaccines by intentionally infecting volunteers?

Biomedicine & Disease

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Why a coronavirus vaccine ‘October Surprise’ could be an October disaster

Assessing Operation Warp Speed: What’s working, what’s not

Podcast: CRISPR-edited weed; opioid addiction vaccine; Africa’s neglected diseases

Biotech Communications

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Fox News fetes Chinese scientists claiming China made and intentionally released COVID virus. Turns out they are on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s payroll

Viewpoint: ‘It’s. Not. The. Cow. Farts.’ Burger King pulls ‘Cows Menu’ climate change ad

Viewpoint: US faces policy nightmare if China wins race to produce a safe, effective COVID vaccine

Brain / Neuroscience

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Puberty resets the brain, giving preteens facing stress and hardship a second chance

How sleep ‘cleans’ the brain

COVID spurs fears of surge in suicides

Chemicals & Pesticides

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Should you worry about pesticides in fruits and vegetables? 96.8% of domestic food below legal residue limits, FDA reports

Bayer settles 15,000 more cancer suits, a ‘huge step’ toward ending glyphosate litigation

Neonicotinoid insecticide ban, dry weather threaten Europe’s ‘fragile’ sugar industry

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Bees ‘scent trained’ to effectively pollinate sunflowers boost seed production up to 57%

Trump v Biden: Where do the candidates stand on GMOs and other key food issues?

Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

Gene Editing / CRISPR

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Viewpoint: Public confused and divided about genetically engineering diseases out of babies

Science not yet ready for CRISPR gene-edited babies, US-UK commission concludes

Biotechnology timeline: Humans have manipulated genes since the ‘dawn of civilization’

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Herpes cure? Gene therapy may work

Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists

One year in, 9 boys with muscular dystrophy show remarkable progress from gene therapy

Health & Wellness

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Fox News fetes Chinese scientists claiming China made and intentionally released COVID virus. Turns out they are on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s payroll

Viewpoint: Why grow GMOs? To prevent cancer, pesticide poisoning and farmer suicides

Masculinity crisis? Social roles and what defines manhood are in flux

New Breeding Techniques

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Gene-edited, blight-resistant rice approved by USDA, Colombian regulators

Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

Podcast: CRISPR-edited weed; opioid addiction vaccine; Africa’s neglected diseases

Personal Genomics

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How one person was spontaneously cured of HIV—and what that may mean in the fight against AIDS

Resurrection of phrenology? AI’s quest to link facial features and criminality has a shady Victorian legacy

Podcast: Rare genetic disorders and pregnancy—Navigating an ’emotionally challenging’ journey

Science of the Future

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How can we detect alien organisms that don’t look like life on Earth?

First Contact with aliens could be a life-altering event. How should we respond?

Science not yet ready for CRISPR gene-edited babies, US-UK commission concludes

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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Will India approve more GMO crops? ‘Ideological’ regulators could halt progress

Viewpoint: ‘It’s. Not. The. Cow. Farts.’ Burger King pulls ‘Cows Menu’ climate change ad

Cheese without the cow: Could bioengineering produce animal-free dairy products?

Synthetic Biology

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How do you make meat without animals? The 5-step ‘recipe’ for a lab-grown, cell-based burger

Synthetic biology ‘apps’: Here comes a revolution in medicine, chemicals, agriculture and food

‘We can’t make dinosaurs come to life – yet.’ How far can synthetic biology turn science fiction into fact?