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Podcast: Jamie Metzl’s ‘Hacking Darwin’—The end of sex and humanity’s genetically engineered future

Cameron English, Jamie Metzl | 
Imagine a world in which would-be parents no longer have sex but conceive children with the assistance of embryo selection ...
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Podcast: Synthetic ‘light switch’ boosts photosynthesis to increase crop yields

Amber Boas, John Christie, Kevin Folta | 
One of the limiting factors in photosynthesis is the plant’s ability to take up carbon dioxide to assimilate into carbohydrates ...
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Podcast: 7 modern pest control tools that protect our food from hungry bugs

Steve Savage | 
Need to manage a pest problem? Luckily, there are many ways to do that! From physical to biological and chemical ...
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Podcast: What would have happened if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter?

Dan Mead, Greg Radick, Kat Arney | 
Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...
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Podcast: How a bad night’s sleep can damage your DNA

Brady Holmer, Kevin Folta, Lior Appelbaum | 
On this episode of Talking Biotech, University of Florida researchers Kevin Folta and Brady Holmer tackle two pressing questions in ...
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Podcast: Recycling 190 million pounds of pesticide containers to promote sustainable agriculture

Mark Hudson, Steve Savage | 
Ag recycles! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant scientist Steve Savage delves into the world of agricultural ...
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Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD

Jennifer Strong | 
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
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Podcast: Healthier cooking oil from biotech soybeans helps battle heart disease, diabetes

Kevin Folta, Kim Nill | 
Soybeans produce abundant cooking oil,  popular with both consumers and the food service industry. However, soybean oil isn't always the ...
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Podcast: ‘Artificial womb’ raises awkward ethical questions about abortion, child welfare and health freedom

Cameron English, Ross Pomeroy | 
Biotechnology is fundamentally changing food and medicine. Thanks to genetic engineering, for example, we have access vitamin-fortified GMO crops, plentiful ...
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Podcast: AquaBounty to begin raising GMO AquAdvantage salmon in US as soon as April 2019

Amie Simpson, Sylvia Wulf | 
A land-based fish farm in East Central Indiana will begin raising AquAdvantage Salmon, genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, as soon as ...
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Podcast: Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains how to combat consumer fear of GMOs

Drew Pinsky, Kevin Folta | 
Dr. Kevin Folta discusses science communication (the communication of science-related topics to non-experts). Part of his work is helping people ...
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Podcast: ‘Just the wife’—how sexism in science obscured achievements of four groundbreaking researchers

Kat Arney | 
Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...
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Podcast: GMO AquAdvantage salmon headed for US grocery stores after 15 years of regulatory review

Kevin Folta, Sylvia Wulf | 
When the transgenic AquAdvantage salmon was first developed in 1989, the goal was simple: engineer a fast-growing fish that required ...
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Podcast: Genesis of GMOs—How the tools of biotechnology came to be

Steve Savage | 
Following some groundbreaking experiments in the early 1970s, biologists discovered they could move DNA between species. This development launched the ...
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Podcast: Geneticist Mary-Claire King nearly quit science—then discovered the first breast cancer gene

Kat Arney, Mary-Claire King | 
Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...
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Podcast: Anthony Warner, ‘The Angry Chef,’ debunks fad diets and popular food ‘pseudoscience’

Anthony Warner, Kevin Folta | 
Anthony Warner is known as The Angry Chef, achieving notoriety for critically analyzing the social movements that pop up around ...
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Podcast: Primer on bees, varroa mites and the ‘beepocalypse’ that never was

Steve Savage | 
This time it’s all about the bees! From the composition of a working hive to the diseases that plague honey ...
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US researchers moving abroad to avoid FDA’s CRISPR-edited animal regulations

Alison Van Eenennaam offers a critical look at stifling US animal gene-editing rules ...
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What can we learn from Mendel’s peas, onions and GM tomatoes?

Kat Arney | 
A quick look at Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking peas, 'junk' DNA and the first GMO crop ...
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Tomorrow’s scientists developing CRISPR-edited crops to boost sustainable farming

Three graduate students highlight their efforts to breed disease-resistant crops and teach science to consumers ...
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Podcast: Roundup resistance—new tactics help farmers keep glyphosate-resistant weeds in check

Jeff Evans, Jodi Henke | 
Weed resistance to herbicides has no field boundaries....Jeff Evans is an ecologist and the owner of Farmscape Analytics, LLC. He ...
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Big Fat Failure

A closer look at the genetics of failure—why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes ...
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Neutralizing toxic military explosives with GMO plants

Kevin Folta, Liz Rylott | 
Military preparedness means testing ammunition in controlled field trials, as well as decommissioning obsolete weaponry. The result is a significant ...
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‘Factory farming’ poisons our food and harms animals?

Cameron English, Leah Dorman | 
Veterinarian Dr. Leah Dorman takes on popular myths about animal agriculture ...
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Talking Biotech: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat debunks flawed glyphosate-cancer meta-analysis. Were the mistakes deliberate?

Geoffrey Kabat, Kevin Folta | 
A skeptical look at the latest glyphosate-cancer study reveals critical errors ...
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Podcast: Celebrating Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday

John Rennie, Richard Milner | 
[February 12 was] Darwin Day. Charles Darwin was born 210 years ago … . Ten years ago I went to a ...
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Talking Biotech: Ethos Chocolate—the pro-GMO candy brand winning over biotech skeptics

Kevin Folta, Rebecca Larson | 
Ethos chocolate hypes its use of GMO ingredients to promote crop biotechnology ...
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