Infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. The Genetic Literacy Project’s infographics illustrate the general understanding of biotechnology and genetics by visually presenting developing stories and data.
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Infographic: Does consuming micro-traces of glyphosate (aka Roundup) in our food cause cancer? All 20 global regulatory and chemical oversight agencies say ‘no’, while anti-biotech activists spin the data
Glyphosate weedkiller, once marketed exclusively under the name RoundUp by its originator Monsanto, is the world's most popular herbicide, used ...
Infographics: Biotech crops have benefited more than 65 million people around the world. Here are some of the benefits
Since 1996, the global area planted to biotech crops has consistently increased, with significant expansion recorded in developing countries. In ...
Infographic: Gene transfer mystery — How ‘antifreeze’ genes jumped from one species to another without sex
It isn’t surprising... that herrings and smelts, two groups of fish that commonly roam the northernmost reaches of the Atlantic ...
Infographic: How contagious are the various COVID variants compared with other diseases?
The cleanest way of comparing the pure biological spreading power of viruses is to look at their R0 (pronounced R-naught) ...
Infographic: Asians are the most likely ethnic group to get vaccinated — but Hispanic and Black Americans lag behind
To date, vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic people have lagged behind those of White people, largely due to access ...
Infographic: From the Spanish flu to COVID — How long has it taken to develop vaccines?
In the graphic [below], we explore how long it has historically taken to bring a vaccine to market during pandemics ...
Infographic: COVID myths — Which are most pervasive, and who is most likely to believe them?
Big myths about COVID vaccines are showing real staying power among Americans who are not vaccinated. They are not the ...
Infographic: Either or? Where does the public stand on vaccine mandates and vaccine passports?
There's much higher public support for government-imposed vaccine mandates than businesses' use of "vaccine passports," even if they're called something ...
Infographic: Vaccine hesitancy on the wane for some as confidence in shot effectiveness grows, tracking study shows
If we look at the attributes of Americans who are ambivalent about vaccination, we see that living in a small ...
Infographic: Trending green and going great — Every state in the US seeing decreased cases of COVID
The U.S. averaged fewer than 40,000 new cases per day over the past week. That’s a 21% improvement over the ...
Infographic: Gene therapy drugs that silence the effects of faulty genes could help tackle Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited condition that causes widespread deterioration in the brain and disrupts thinking, behaviour, emotion and ...
The United States has done the worst job at protecting the lives of its younger citizens from COVID — by far
While the elderly have been at the highest risk of becoming seriously ill due to COVID-19 infections, COVID-19 also affected ...
Infographic: COVID rejection ideology — Vaccine skeptics are also prevention skeptics
How many Americans won’t get the vaccine? If the figure is fairly low, the ability of the virus to spread ...
Infographic: COVID variants spreading rapidly throughout the US, stalling post-coronavirus recovery
The country’s vaccine rollout has sped up since the first doses were administered in December, recently reaching a rolling average ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 3: How dangerous is glyphosate?
Although pesticide toxicity and biodegradability has decreased overall during the last few decades, many consumers are still worried about pesticides ...
Infographic: Here’s where GM crops are grown around the world today
Do you know where biotech crops are grown in the world? This updated ISAAA infographics show where biotech crops were ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
Infographic: Deaths from COVID-19 are far higher than reported estimates
More than 2.8 million people have lost their lives due to the pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis ...
Infographic: South Africa sees surprising drop in COVID-19 cases and deaths despite presence of more infectious and dangerous variant
Since mid-January, confirmed Covid-19 infections in South Africa have fallen from a record of nearly 22,000 a day to around ...
Infographic: Is COVID here to stay? Why the virus may never be eradicated
Nature asked more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus whether it could be eradicated. Almost ...
Infographic: What are TALENs? Another important gene-editing tool to boost sustainable farming
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Infographic: History’s 11 deadliest plagues, from the Antonine epidemic in ancient Rome to COVID-19
The novel coronavirus took just a few months to sweep the globe. More than 2.5 million people around the world ...
Infographic: How dangerous COVID mutant strains develop
Sometime in 2019, probably in China, SARS CoV-2 figured out a way to interact with a specific "spike" on the ...
Video infographic: Extraordinary 3-D view inside a cancer cell
Even something as tiny as a cell is thick enough for specialized cameras to examine in detail. In a process ...
Infographic: ‘You’re not going to wipe this thing out by achieving herd immunity.’ Vaccines alone will not contain COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has raged almost uncontrollably for so long that even if millions of people ...
The truth about the COVID vaccines: Everything you need to know about the fastest vaccines ever developed
The COVID-19 vaccine was developed faster than any other vaccine in history, which has caused some concern to those that ...
Infographic: The evolutionary history of the COVID-19 coronavirus
Reuters analysed over 185,000 genome samples from the Global Initiative on Sharing All influenza Data (GISAID), the largest database of ...
