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GLP Features

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

old-fashioned vs natural practices of modern agriculture

Viewpoint: Do you avoid GM crops because they were ‘made by science’ but buy organic food because it’s more ‘natural’? What does naturalness even mean?

Neanderthals and human evolution

The increasingly bushy human family tree and five other paradigm-altering changes in our understanding of human evolution

Kernza — a sustainable, perennial grain — may be a wildcard tool to help address climate change challenges in agriculture. What might limit its effectiveness?

Kernza — a sustainable, perennial grain — may be a wildcard tool to help address climate change challenges in agriculture. What might limit its effectiveness?

Viewpoint: NY Times collaborates with Greenpeace in front page ‘hit piece’ targeting professor working to reduce the sustainability footprint of animal agriculture. Here’s his response

Viewpoint: NY Times collaborates with Greenpeace in front page ‘hit piece’ targeting professor working to reduce the sustainability footprint of animal agriculture. Here’s his response

Frank Mitloehner

New Zealand’s commitment to removing invasive animal predators opens the door to reconsidering its 20-year rejection of genetic modification

Jacqueline Rowarth, Jon Entine

Podcast: Seralini's infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Podcast: Seralini’s infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks

Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Aviva Phillip-Muller, Richard Petty, Spike Lee

Featured Articles

old-fashioned vs natural practices of modern agriculture

Viewpoint: Do you avoid GM crops because they were ‘made by science’ but buy organic food because it’s more ‘natural’? What does naturalness even mean?

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Kernza — a sustainable, perennial grain — may be a wildcard tool to help address climate change challenges in agriculture. What might limit its effectiveness?

Kernza — a sustainable, perennial grain — may be a wildcard tool to help address climate change challenges in agriculture. What might limit its effectiveness?

Neanderthals and human evolution

The increasingly bushy human family tree and five other paradigm-altering changes in our understanding of human evolution

Viewpoint: NY Times collaborates with Greenpeace in front page ‘hit piece’ targeting professor working to reduce the sustainability footprint of animal agriculture. Here’s his response

Viewpoint: NY Times collaborates with Greenpeace in front page ‘hit piece’ targeting professor working to reduce the sustainability footprint of animal agriculture. Here’s his response

Frank Mitloehner

New Zealand’s commitment to removing invasive animal predators opens the door to reconsidering its 20-year rejection of genetic modification

Jacqueline Rowarth, Jon Entine

Podcast: Seralini's infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Podcast: Seralini’s infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks

Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust

Aviva Phillip-Muller, Richard Petty, Spike Lee

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Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | November 3, 2022

Podcast: Seralini's infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Podcast: Seralini’s infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Kevin Folta | October 31, 2022

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

86% positive: Cultivated meat gains support from top American chefs

Reyna Estrada | Restaurant Business Online

Viewpoint: ‘25 years of proof that GM foods are safe for the environment and humans’ – Nobel Prize winning geneticist makes case for embracing gene editing

Birgit Herden, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | Der Tagesspiegel

Viewpoint: Ukrainian farmers ‘increasingly bleak’ in face of Russian shelling and dropping temperatures

Sara Wyant | Agri-Pulse

Viewpoint: Why Columbia University has disaffiliated itself from ‘pseudoscience quack’ Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz

Megan Lunny | Columbia Spectator

Shrink shrimp’s carbon footprint by half? Here’s how AI-led land-based seafood farms can sustainably meet our protein needs

Matt Whittaker | Fortune

Can food treat cancer? There’s no ‘miracle cure’, but healthy diets are major factor in reducing risk

Holly Cooper Ford | University of Virginia

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Biological tipping point: At a certain point in life, environmental factors and age are more important to disease risk than DNA

Robby Berman | Medical News Today

10,200 nerve endings on the clitoris? More exact nerve count could make sexual wellness surgery safer

Sophie Putka | MedPage Today

Decolonizing universities: UK schools struggle with how to address legacy of racism

Philip Ball | Nature

Drawing a line: European Convention upholds ban on heritable human genome editing

Pete Shanks | Center for Genetics and Society

Genetics research has been weaponized by extremists. Here’s how scientists can combat this trend

Brenna Henn, Dana Al-Hindi, Jedidiah Carlson, Sohini Ramachandran | Nature

COVID research transparency: Lab loopholes can lead to unnecessarily risky experiments. What can be done?

Benjamin Mueller, Carl Zimmer | New York Times

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GLP Library Search

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: Kenya needs hundreds of thousands more tons of corn to feed the country’s population. Lifting the GMO ban is a great first step

Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks

Ancestry & Evolution

Neanderthals and human evolution

The increasingly bushy human family tree and five other paradigm-altering changes in our understanding of human evolution

Autoimmune disorders: Here’s how the Black Death altered evolution and left permanent scars on survivors’ descendants

‘So much more than cave-dwelling thugs with clubs’: Neanderthal DNA gives us a look into ancient family life

Biomedicine & Disease

Can food treat cancer? There’s no ‘miracle cure’, but healthy diets are major factor in reducing risk

Can food treat cancer? There’s no ‘miracle cure’, but healthy diets are major factor in reducing risk

Viewpoint: Human insulin saga: Anomalous, successful 40-year history of the first genetically-modified medicine underscores how regulators can scuttle innovation

Kaftrio miracle: How a new suite of genetically-tuned drugs are challenging cystic fibrosis – and opening door for victims to have children

Biotech Communications

dr oz

Viewpoint: Why Columbia University has disaffiliated itself from ‘pseudoscience quack’ Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz

Can food treat cancer? There’s no ‘miracle cure’, but healthy diets are major factor in reducing risk

Viewpoint: Should Europe stop using pesticides? This binary, all-or-nothing thinking misrepresents the benefits of crop protection chemicals

Brain / Neuroscience

1 in 10 Americans over 65 have Alzheimer’s — and this number is even higher in Black Americans

1 in 10 Americans over 65 have Alzheimer’s — and this number is even higher in Black Americans

Manipulating nature: Should rats implanted with human brain cells be treated differently than unaltered test rodents?

Reading comprehension genes: 27 newly-identified genetic variants tied to dyslexia

Chemicals & Pesticides

Podcast: Seralini's infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

Podcast: Seralini’s infamous rat study 10 years later — Looking back at the retracted research linking GM corn and glyphosate to cancer

‘Fuel of the future’: South Africa factory uses renewable energy to create ‘green’ ammonia

Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks

Precautionary Politics: Europe Moves Backward into a Fear-Based ‘Dark Ages’ in Regulating Agriculture and Cancer Risks

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO activists, from Organic Consumers Association to Joe Mercola to Vandana Shiva, formed an alliance. Why this is good news for biotech and science supporters

Australia approves trial run of high-yield herbicide-resistant GM canola and mustard seeds

‘When we exercise, we’re not just doing it for ourselves’: Why going on a run today could benefit your future grandkids

‘When we exercise, we’re not just doing it for ourselves’: Why going on a run today could benefit your future grandkids

How different is your real age from what your genes predict?

Alcohol addiction cure? Gene editing did just that in rats, offering hope for treatment in humans

Gene Editing / CRISPR

CRISPR and the ethics on human gene editing

‘Just because we can do it, should we?’ How CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna is furthering the discussion over the ethics of human genome editing

CRISPR cryptography: Making the world safer from gene-editing research gone awry

New treatments for rare, inherited childhood diseases? CRISPR sheep help advance research

Gene therapy approvals now at four with treatments for inherited anemia and degenerative brain condition — but costs are stratospheric. Why?

Gene therapy approvals now at four with treatments for inherited anemia and degenerative brain condition — but costs are stratospheric. Why?

Novel gene therapy study offers hope for definitive colorblindness cure

$2.8 million Zynteglo gene therapy: Bluebird sets price on one-time beta-thalassemia treatment replacing red blood cell transfusions

Health & Wellness

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cancer rates continue 30+ year downward trend

HeridiGene: How the world’s largest DNA-mapping study is saving lives

New Breeding Techniques

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: ‘Adapt or else…’ — Why Britain is shaking off shackles of European crop biotechnology science-rejectionism and embracing gene editing

A ‘dazzling, eggplant-colored’ genetically-modified tomato slated for US rollout. Here are its prospects in Australia

Carbon removal breakthrough: Genetic tools that have created climate resilient crops could capture carbon dioxide as well

Personal Genomics

genetic screening could save lives

HeridiGene: How the world’s largest DNA-mapping study is saving lives

Groove to the music? A ‘rhythm gene’ might help set the limits of your dancing skills

Australia’s plan to become first country to offer preventive disease gene screening is under microscope

Science of the Future

Underground farms, aquatic meals and more: What would our food system evolve into if an asteroid hit Earth?

Underground farms, aquatic meals and more: What would our food system evolve into if an asteroid hit Earth?

DNA USB key? How we could store data for potentially thousands of years using the genetic code

AI has made massive strides in recent years — but it can’t perfectly replicate human language. What makes this task so complicated?

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Viewpoint: ‘25 years of proof that GM foods are safe for the environment and humans’ – Nobel Prize winning geneticist makes case for embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: ‘25 years of proof that GM foods are safe for the environment and humans’ – Nobel Prize winning geneticist makes case for embracing gene editing

Viewpoint: Ukrainian farmers ‘increasingly bleak’ in face of Russian shelling and dropping temperatures

Kernza — a sustainable, perennial grain — may be a wildcard tool to help address climate change challenges in agriculture. What might limit its effectiveness?

Synthetic Biology

Cruelty-free foie gras? Europe's largest foray into luxury lab-grown foods

Cruelty-free foie gras? Europe’s largest foray into luxury lab-grown foods

Would you pay $300 for a 3D-printed steak? One day you may be able to print your own meat for a fraction of the cost

If you want cell-based meat pioneered in the Netherlands, you should… head to Singapore? Outdated regulations hold back Europe’s slaughter-free cultivated meat industry