Agricultural scientists Karen Cox of West Virginia University and Dan Lima of Ohio State University offer a crash course on Genetically Modified Organisms on this episode of Extension Calling. What are GMOs? Why is genetic engineering a big deal? And should you be worried about the health and environmental risks of genetic engineering?
Original podcast: Common Questions about GMO’s
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar? 
Embryos aren’t female by ‘default’ after all, study shows 
Why you may soon be shopping for tomatoes enhanced with snapdragon flower genes 
Viewpoint: By engineering block on Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice, Greenpeace ‘puts the whole environmental movement into disrepute’ 
Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares 
‘Golden blood’ is incredibly important to medicine — but for the 43 people worldwide known to have it, it poses a unique danger 
How Freddie Mercury got his voice: It wasn’t his teeth 
Dissecting claims about Monsanto suing farmers for accidentally planting patented seeds 
Have any of Earth’s creatures stopped evolving? 
Explaining the debate over GMOs—and what is or isn’t ‘natural’— through the genetics of chickens 
