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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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Why do humans mate in private? Instinct or morality?

Bob Yirka, Wesley J. Smith

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Real life Jurassic Park? Recovered prehistoric DNA raises prospect of resurrecting species

Tautvydas Shuipys

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Viewpoint: Glyphosate-tainted hummus? Environmental Working Group’s latest pesticide scare short on facts

Andrew Porterfield

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COVID-19 conspiracy theories give people the feeling of being in control

Viewpoint: While ‘elitist academics’ praise local food ‘industrial farming’ feeds us during a pandemic

‘Immunological dark matter’: Is this why some people have a pre-existing immunity to COVID-19?

Joacim Rocklöv, Paul Franks

Viewpoint: Battling deadly disease with gene drives is worth the limited risk

Brian Lovett, Isobel Ronai

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Video: Death by COVID: The projected grim toll in historical context

August 12, 2020

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Why do humans mate in private? Instinct or morality?

Bob Yirka, Wesley J. Smith

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‘No change in insect population sizes’: Massive North American study challenges ‘insect apocalypse’ claims

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Real life Jurassic Park? Recovered prehistoric DNA raises prospect of resurrecting species

Tautvydas Shuipys

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Viewpoint: Glyphosate-tainted hummus? Environmental Working Group’s latest pesticide scare short on facts

Andrew Porterfield

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COVID-19 conspiracy theories give people the feeling of being in control

Viewpoint: While ‘elitist academics’ praise local food ‘industrial farming’ feeds us during a pandemic

‘Immunological dark matter’: Is this why some people have a pre-existing immunity to COVID-19?

Joacim Rocklöv, Paul Franks

Viewpoint: Battling deadly disease with gene drives is worth the limited risk

Brian Lovett, Isobel Ronai

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Video: Death by COVID: The projected grim toll in historical context

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Podcast: Arguing with vaccine skeptics works; Ban GMO labels? Agroecology keeps Africa poor

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | August 12, 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: From the Black Death to COVID-19—Investigating the ancient war between genes and disease

Christiana Scheib, Claire Steves, Kat Arney, Lucy van Dorp | July 31, 2020

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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Kenyan farmers could plant GMO insect-resistant Bt cotton by November, boosting $500 million textile industry

Podcast: Arguing with vaccine skeptics works; Ban GMO labels? Agroecology keeps Africa poor

France poised to lift neonicotinoid insecticide ban to save pest-ravaged sugar beet industry

Ancestry & Evolution

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Real life Jurassic Park? Recovered prehistoric DNA raises prospect of resurrecting species

How humans might play a role in our own extinction

Origins of life: We are getting closer to recreating the bubbling primordial soup

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

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Beyond anti-vax activism, what could slow embrace of COVID-19 vaccines? Production and logistics

‘I was wrong’: Why we shouldn’t start giving COVID-19 vaccinations now

Viewpoint: How COVID-19 has brought America to its knees

Biomedicine & Disease

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Sputnik V: Putin claims win in ‘vaccine race,’ as Russia registers first COVID-19 shot amid concerns it is compromising safety

Video: Death by COVID: The projected grim toll in historical context

‘Tantalizing solutions’: How we are developing the next generation of cancer drugs

Biotech Communications

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Organic food healthier? Nutritionist explains what the media get wrong time and again

Podcast: Arguing with vaccine skeptics works; Ban GMO labels? Agroecology keeps Africa poor

Viewpoint: ‘Onerous’ regulations exacerbate consumer fear of gene-edited crops

Brain / Neuroscience

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Why it’s important to have a public discussion about Kanye West’s erratic behavior

Zoanthropy: The curious case of the woman who believes she is a chicken

Are we any closer to understanding what consciousness is?

Chemicals & Pesticides

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Do fast food takeout wrappers and containers harbor harmful chemicals?

Next Green Revolution: Gene-silencing technology opens door to safer pesticides, more GMO crops

French winegrowers challenge proposed ‘unfair, unenforceable’ glyphosate weedkiller restrictions

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Rwanda controls COVID-19 but its farmers struggle

Why grow GMOs? Because plants don’t naturally evolve into food fit for humans

Viewpoint: While ‘elitist academics’ praise local food ‘industrial farming’ feeds us during a pandemic

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Disability advocacy community both scared and excited about CRISPR gene editing

Disability advocacy community both scared and excited about CRISPR gene editing

4,000 US babies are born with mitochondrial diseases. That could be fixed by a new form of gene editing

When CRISPR gene editing falls short: ‘Base editing’ might treat disorders on the maternal line in mitochondrial DNA

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$3 million per person price tag set on first gene therapy for hemophilia expected ready this fall

Strokes often deadly but gene therapy offers hope to rebuild critically damaged brain cells

Lucy may not live to see her second birthday without expensive gene therapy

Health & Wellness

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Swapping red meat for plant-based beef may cut cardiovascular disease risk

Medieval medicine resurrected: Could a 1,000 year old potion help fight bacterial infections?

Florida sees increase in dengue fever cases while regulators mull GMO gene drive mosquito release

New Breeding Techniques

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Just 7 years old, CRISPR gene editing is making food more nutritious and battling COVID

Podcast: Global population crash; Pesticide bans backfire; beef producing CRISPR male cows

Billions of people rely on rice for sustenance. Genetic engineering makes it more nutritious

Personal Genomics

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‘Tantalizing solutions’: How we are developing the next generation of cancer drugs

Coronavirus highlights why the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act is ripe for overhaul

DNA of the slave trade: American Blacks’ genetic links to Africa

Science of the Future

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Coronavirus accelerates adoption of artificial intelligence

Real life Jurassic Park? Recovered prehistoric DNA raises prospect of resurrecting species

With a boost from COVID-19, the ‘Neobiological Revolution’ is transforming humanity

Sustainability / GreenGenes

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Podcast: Arguing with vaccine skeptics works; Ban GMO labels? Agroecology keeps Africa poor

‘No change in insect population sizes’: Massive North American study challenges ‘insect apocalypse’ claims

Rwanda controls COVID-19 but its farmers struggle

Synthetic Biology

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Space Station science: Fungus found at Chernobyl could protect astronauts from galactic cosmic radiation

Civilization inflection point? China posed to pass US as world leader in biotechnology

Animal-free ice cream maker Perfect Day eyes launch of lab-made milk and mozzarella cheese

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