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Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker

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

GLP Features

Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

'Here, CRISPR critter’: How to gene edit a hypo-allergenic cat

‘Here, CRISPR critter’: How to gene edit a hypo-allergenic cat

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

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

Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations

Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations

Ratemo Michieka

Children with deadly immune disorders remain healthy a decade after being treated with gene therapy

Children with deadly immune disorders remain healthy a decade after being treated with gene therapy

Biotechnology key driver of sustainable agriculture innovation in Canada

Biotechnology key driver of sustainable agriculture innovation in Canada

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Beyond neurodiversity: The dangers of ‘reducing diversity to brain-based distinctions’

Beyond neurodiversity: The dangers of ‘reducing diversity to brain-based distinctions’

How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

Cameron English

Featured Articles

Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

'Here, CRISPR critter’: How to gene edit a hypo-allergenic cat

‘Here, CRISPR critter’: How to gene edit a hypo-allergenic cat

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

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

Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations

Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations

Ratemo Michieka

Children with deadly immune disorders remain healthy a decade after being treated with gene therapy

Children with deadly immune disorders remain healthy a decade after being treated with gene therapy

Biotechnology key driver of sustainable agriculture innovation in Canada

Biotechnology key driver of sustainable agriculture innovation in Canada

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Beyond neurodiversity: The dangers of ‘reducing diversity to brain-based distinctions’

Beyond neurodiversity: The dangers of ‘reducing diversity to brain-based distinctions’

How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

Cameron English

GLP Podcasts More...

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | March 31, 2022

Podcast: Tuskegee plant scientist on how outdated environmentalist ideology blocks biotech-led new Green Revolution

Podcast: Tuskegee plant scientist on how outdated environmentalist ideology blocks biotech-led new Green Revolution

Matthew Kessler | March 28, 2022

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

‘Now they’re here’: Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control dangerous spread of disease-carrying Aedes aegypti

Mark Kaufman | Mashable

Viewpoint: Here are cutting edge ways technology can help us increase farm outputs without using more land

Mihaela Tanase | Dagens Naeringsliv

Modified: Destigmatizing GMOs one bite at a time

Joan Conrow | Cornell Alliance for Science

Turning lettuce into a bone-strengthening food? How scientists are using genetic modification to create foods of the future

Genelle Weule | ABC News (Australia)

Edible kelp: The next big thing in high-end cuisine?

Anne Lise Stranden | Science Norway

India decides gene edited crops and foods will not be as tightly regulated as GMOs

Zia Haq | Hindustan Times

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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

India decides gene edited crops and foods will not be as tightly regulated as GMOs

India decides gene edited crops and foods will not be as tightly regulated as GMOs

Following in Kenya’s footsteps: Behind Ghana’s quest to get GMO cassava approved–the country’s first genetically engineered crop

Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations

Ancestry & Evolution

Threat from drug resistant ‘superbugs’ is growing

Threat from drug resistant ‘superbugs’ is growing

How humans are driving plant evolution

Umami: A fifth basic human taste has been identified. Here’s what it does

Biomedicine & Disease

Threat from drug resistant ‘superbugs’ is growing

Threat from drug resistant ‘superbugs’ is growing

Sickle cell cure? Gene therapy very promising but trust and racial disparities in healthcare may be barriers

Controversial study claiming vitamin C can cure sepsis suspected fraudulent

Biotech Communications

Modified: Destigmatizing GMOs one bite at a time

Modified: Destigmatizing GMOs one bite at a time

WHO says Pfizer vaccine anecdotally linked to tinnitus hearing loss

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

Brain / Neuroscience

Sex differences in responding to baby scent: Males more aggressive, women the opposite

Sex differences in responding to baby scent: Males more aggressive, women the opposite

WHO says Pfizer vaccine anecdotally linked to tinnitus hearing loss

Looking to reduce pain? Try a dose of nostalgia

Chemicals & Pesticides

Despite controversy and rising prices, farmers in Pennsylvania Amish country recommit to using glyphosate for no-till, reduced carbon-release farming

Despite controversy and rising prices, farmers in Pennsylvania Amish country recommit to using glyphosate for no-till, reduced carbon-release farming

Viewpoint: Why we need to replace the current pesticide assessment system

Milestone in plant breeding? New wheat variety might not require neonicotinoids or other chemical protectants

Viewpoint: How South Africa is bungling regulation of CRISPR and other gene edited crops — and why consumers will pay the price

Viewpoint: How South Africa is bungling regulation of CRISPR and other gene edited crops — and why consumers will pay the price

Love organic sweet Ruby Red grapefruits? Did you know it’s one of thousands of plants developed by shooting gamma rays at seeds?

Believing shipment was GMO crops, anti-technology organization ‘Extinction Rebellion’ illegally dumps 1,5000 tons of conventional wheat intended to feed poultry in countries hard hit by Ukrainian war

Rwandan genocide permanently altered survivors' DNA, epigenetic study finds

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

How are animals and plants adapting to our increasingly warming and polluted world?

Gene Editing / CRISPR

Infographic: Are genetically modified pigs the future of organ transplants?

Infographic: Are genetically modified pigs the future of organ transplants?

From cloning to de-extinction: Scientists encounter limits on using CRISPR to resurrect animal species

CRISPR critics say gene editing results in ‘unknowable mistakes’. Here’s how scientists are addressing that challenge

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

Successful couples therapy depends in part on your genetics

Successful couples therapy depends in part on your genetics

‘Now they’re here’: Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control dangerous spread of disease-carrying Aedes aegypti

Turning lettuce into a bone-strengthening food? How scientists are using genetic modification to create foods of the future

New Breeding Techniques

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How gene editing crops can help address world hunger

Viewpoint: Gene editing crops is the very definition of ‘green technology’

Beef from genetically edited cattle are two years away from being available to consumers. Here’s what we can expect

Personal Genomics

3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped

3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped

Diagnosing Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy and fragile X syndrome? New DNA test can cut diagnosis time from decades to days

Investigation: DNA ancestry search uncovers fertility fraud. What happens next?

Science of the Future

Viewpoint: Here are cutting edge ways technology can help us increase farm outputs without using more land

Viewpoint: Here are cutting edge ways technology can help us increase farm outputs without using more land

Turning lettuce into a bone-strengthening food? How scientists are using genetic modification to create foods of the future

3 million base pairs: Human genome now fully mapped

Sustainability / GreenGenes

Viewpoint: Here are cutting edge ways technology can help us increase farm outputs without using more land

Viewpoint: Here are cutting edge ways technology can help us increase farm outputs without using more land

Modified: Destigmatizing GMOs one bite at a time

Edible kelp: The next big thing in high-end cuisine?

Synthetic Biology

The Netherlands positions itself to become Silicon Valley of cultured meat

The Netherlands positions itself to become Silicon Valley of cultured meat

Viewpoint: Is cell-based meat science or a billion-dollar con?

Sustainable seafood? This company believes it can make tasty vegan fish from plants and cultivated cells