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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

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables

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

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

Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim

Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

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

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

Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Emma Kovak

Featured Articles

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

Roma 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

Scared to death: These ‘Toxic Ten’ chemicals have been widely detected in many commonly-consumed fruits and vegetables

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

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

Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Emma Kovak

Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim

Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

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

‘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

‘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

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine

Plant microbiome: Key to weaning agriculture off chemical inputs?

Jenna Gallegos | Cornell Alliance for Science

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

Greg Johnson | Blue Book Services

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

Sharon Maombo | Star (Kenya)

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

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

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

COVID nasal vaccines nearing rollout could ease resistance

Tim Loh | Bloomberg

Why apathy is often the first symptom of Alzheimer’s

Rich Haridy | New Atlas

Accidents of nature? Climate change is helping us understand how humans came to rule the world

Tara Yarlagadda | Inverse

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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

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

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

Viewpoint: GMO grapes could be engineered to cut pesticide use and reduce pest damage. Why are they not yet commercialized?

Ancestry & Evolution

‘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

‘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

Accidents of nature? Climate change is helping us understand how humans came to rule the world

Homo floresiensis mystery: Could this ancient hominid species still be alive?

Biomedicine & Disease

COVID nasal vaccines nearing rollout could ease resistance

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

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

Biotech Communications

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

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

Columbia University finally — but quietly — expunges connections to Trump-endorsed Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Oz, known for ‘quack’ science views and anti-GMO disinformation

Brain / Neuroscience

Why apathy is often the first symptom of Alzheimer’s

Why apathy is often the first symptom of Alzheimer’s

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

Aha! The science behind eureka moments

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?

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

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?

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine endangers our global food system

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

‘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

‘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

Viewpoint: GMO grapes could be engineered to cut pesticide use and reduce pest damage. Why are they not yet commercialized?

Does crop genetic engineering promote monoculture, as anti-GMO activists claim?

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

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

Plant microbiome: Key to weaning agriculture off chemical inputs?

Viewpoint: Africans need to be part of the conversation in determining the future of artificial intelligence (AI)

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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

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

How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world

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

Synthetic Biology

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

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?

The perfect wine? Biotechnology poised to upend ancient craft of winemaking