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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: Genetics and AI have launched an agricultural revolution. But ‘blind techno-optimism’ could have harmful consequences

Charlotte-Anne Chivers, David Rose

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When humans evolved selfishness

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Our Stone Age ancestors thrived on ‘chunks of meat,’ but plants were just as key to their survival

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‘Reverse dieting’ fad reality check: Is it possible to maintain a lower body weight while consuming more calories?

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Podcast: COVID killed anti-GMO activism? Environmentalists split over glyphosate; Predatory journal Pokémon hoax

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Battle over 15-year GMO ban extension rages in Peru as farmers breed and cultivate illegal biotech seed

Battle over 15-year GMO ban extension rages in Peru as farmers breed and cultivate illegal biotech seed

Sherly Montaguth

To the victor go the spoils: How Homo sapiens prevailed in battles for survival with Neanderthals

Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

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Are Sudanese Arabs?

Are Sudanese Arabs?

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Viewpoint: Genetics and AI have launched an agricultural revolution. But ‘blind techno-optimism’ could have harmful consequences

Charlotte-Anne Chivers, David Rose

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Our Stone Age ancestors thrived on ‘chunks of meat,’ but plants were just as key to their survival

getty

When humans evolved selfishness

reverse dieting is this the secret to keeping the weight off

‘Reverse dieting’ fad reality check: Is it possible to maintain a lower body weight while consuming more calories?

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Podcast: COVID killed anti-GMO activism? Environmentalists split over glyphosate; Predatory journal Pokémon hoax

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Battle over 15-year GMO ban extension rages in Peru as farmers breed and cultivate illegal biotech seed

Battle over 15-year GMO ban extension rages in Peru as farmers breed and cultivate illegal biotech seed

Sherly Montaguth

To the victor go the spoils: How Homo sapiens prevailed in battles for survival with Neanderthals

Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

Viewpoint: Politics and science in Europe: How the development of COVID-19 vaccines highlights ideological inconsistency and hypocrisy

GLP Podcasts More...

Podcast: COVID killed anti-GMO activism? Environmentalists split over glyphosate; Predatory journal Pokémon hoax

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | December 2, 2020

Talking Biotech

Podcast: Beyond CRISPR and gene therapy—How ‘gene writing’ is poised to transform the treatment of even the rarest diseases

Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Kevin Folta | November 20, 2020

Genetics Unzipped

Podcast: Polymerase chain reaction—The ‘transformative’ tool that sparked a genetics revolution

Kat Arney | November 5, 2020

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GLP Library Search

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

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

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EU Court of Justice tosses Brussels lawsuit seeking to ban glyphosate weedkiller

Latin American researchers use gene editing to develop new crops that benefit farmers and consumers

‘What are we afraid of?’ Swiss farm officials frustrated by government’s proposed GMO ban extension

Ancestry & Evolution

Last surviving white giraffe, a genetic anomaly, fitted with GPS tracker to deter poachers

Last surviving white giraffe, a genetic anomaly, fitted with GPS tracker to deter poachers

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of life’s watery creation 100 years ahead of everyone else

Our Stone Age ancestors thrived on ‘chunks of meat,’ but plants were just as key to their survival

Biomedical Regs & Ethics

‘Zoom boom’: Why is Asia the only part of the world weathering the economic fallout from COVID?

‘Zoom boom’: Why is Asia the only part of the world weathering the economic fallout from COVID?

Airlines moving towards required pre-flight COVID testing to boost traveling

Viewpoint: If you care about science and the well-being of our children, don’t close schools

Biomedicine & Disease

Genetically-engineered vaccine shows promise in elusive quest to control herpes

Genetically-engineered vaccine shows promise in elusive quest to control herpes

WHO launches daunting task of tracing COVID’s global path

Men and women require distinct brain tumor therapies, underscoring hard-wired differences in the brain

Biotech Communications

Viewpoint: 3 anti-GMO myths that hinder Nigeria’s adoption of biotech crops

Viewpoint: 3 anti-GMO myths that hinder Nigeria’s adoption of biotech crops

3 biggest COVID rumors and false claims debunked

Pandemic food shortages could boost Ghana’s acceptance of insect-resistant GM Bt cowpea

Brain / Neuroscience

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Black biologist Charles Henry Turner’s groundbreaking research on animal cognition remains largely unacknowledged

If your disposition is cheerful, you’re less likely to experience memory decline

Human brains prewired to understand words

Chemicals & Pesticides

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Sweeping glyphosate-cancer settlement could leave many plaintiffs with just ‘a few thousand dollars’

Podcast: COVID killed anti-GMO activism? Environmentalists split over glyphosate; Predatory journal Pokémon hoax

Non-farming glyphosate weedkiller uses likely harm endangered species, EPA finds

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‘What are we afraid of?’ Swiss farm officials frustrated by government’s proposed GMO ban extension

Our Stone Age ancestors thrived on ‘chunks of meat,’ but plants were just as key to their survival

Gene editing could fight deadly diseases in fish, boosting sustainable aquaculture

Gene Editing / CRISPR

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Podcast: Beyond CRISPR and gene therapy—How ‘gene writing’ is poised to transform the treatment of even the rarest diseases

EU needs new guidelines to evaluate environmental impact of gene-drive mosquitoes, food safety officials say

CRISPR gene editing to correct harmful mutations could in rare cases wreak havoc on our chromosomes, study claims

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Resurgence of gene therapy has dramatically altered the the biomedicine revolution

‘Gigantic leaps forward’ What’s happened in the 21 years since a teenager died undergoing gene therapy, stalling emergence of this biomedical breakthrough?

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

Health & Wellness

As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection

As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection

Aging reversed using high-pressure hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Israeli researchers claim in peer reviewed study

‘Reverse dieting’ fad reality check: Is it possible to maintain a lower body weight while consuming more calories?

New Breeding Techniques

Latin American researchers use gene editing to develop new crops that benefit farmers and consumers

Latin American researchers use gene editing to develop new crops that benefit farmers and consumers

‘People always have, and likely always will, fear new things’: Why we still can’t buy AquaBounty’s GM salmon

Viewpoint: GM crops could help slow climate change. Will environmental groups block their development?

Personal Genomics

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Precision medicines addressing unique diseases are poised to become more accessible

Large autism mutation risk does not increase as parents age, study finds

Almost 50 years after brutal rape and murder, DNA cracks cold case, suspect commits suicide before conviction

Science of the Future

Possibility of life on Venus fades after reanalysis of atmospheric data

Possibility of life on Venus fades after reanalysis of atmospheric data

Aging reversed using high-pressure hyperbaric oxygen chamber, Israeli researchers claim in peer reviewed study

Natural Cycles wearable birth control monitor on track for FDA approval

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Gene editing could fight deadly diseases in fish, boosting sustainable aquaculture

Gene editing could fight deadly diseases in fish, boosting sustainable aquaculture

‘Unlikely alliance’: Farm Bureau joins green advocacy groups to tackle climate change

Viewpoint: GM crops could help slow climate change. Will environmental groups block their development?

Synthetic Biology

‘Exceptionally potent yet easily scalable’: Synthetic biology-based COVID vaccine could pull ahead of current frontrunners

‘Exceptionally potent yet easily scalable’: Synthetic biology-based COVID vaccine could pull ahead of current frontrunners

Lab-grown meat requires fewer farm inputs than livestock, but more energy. Is it really better for the planet?

How synthetic biology can eliminate pollutants in wastewater and soil