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GMOs and The Mark Lynas Conversion: Round Two Roundup

Kenrick Vezina | 
The GLP digs through the fallout from Mark Lynas's public "conversion" from anti-GMO to pro-science activist ...

Activist farmers join Monsanto protest

Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy Now! gathered in front of the White House today, directly ...
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It’s time to stop obsessing about the dangers of genetic information

Virginia Hughes | 
The personal genomics horse has bolted, yet many members of the medical community are still trying to shut the barn ...
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Vigilante “Label It Yourself” activists violate federal law

Henry Miller | 
The Label It Yourself campaign encourages activists to place their own self-printed "warning" labels on GM foods on supermarket shelves ...
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Gene patents face Supreme Court reckoning

Medical-testing companies differ on the potential impact of the Supreme Court ruling on the Myriad Genetics BRCA1 patent. Many companies ...
Gene technology innovations reshaping future of medicine

Gene technology innovations reshaping future of medicine

Kenrick Vezina | 
The ability to map human DNA cheaply and quickly is yielding a torrent of data about the genetic drivers of ...
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Seeking clues to violence in the genome of Newtown gunman

Gina Kolata | 
Geneticists at the University of Connecticut are quietly making plans to study the DNA of the Newtown gunman, in an ...
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Bioethics by Donna Dickenson: A review

Gina Maranto | 
Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, has written a highly accessible guide ...
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Genetic testing service deCODEme shutting down in wake of Amgen/deCODE deal

Dan Vorhaus | 
After the $415 million sale of deCODE Genetics to Amgen, deCODE's deCODEme direct-to-consumer genomic screening service will be shut down ...
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Greenpeace’s disinformation campaign against Golden Rice, and science, prevails in China

Jon Entine | 
In late summer, the Asian arm of Greenpeace issued an alarming press release headlined: “24 children used as guinea pigs ...
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Genetic pre-natal test opens window to improved diagnoses, stirs concerns

Jon Entine | 
New fetal screening tests using gene chips instead of conventional chromosomal evaluation to identify congenital diseases may ignite a turf ...
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Biotech regulation: Are democracy and science in conflict?

Kenrick Vezina | 
Why do GMOs fester in regulatory limbo for so long? Any regulatory agency attempting to address both science and people’s ...

Kenya’s ban on GM foods is a big blow to biotech research

Fredrick Obura | 
Research institutions, Universities and consumers are biggest losers in a new directive by the Government to ban trade and importation ...

Are genetically modified crops finally on their way out of India?

Darryl D’Monte | 
Predictably, the recommendation by an experts’ panel appointed by the Supreme Court - that trials of genetically modified (GM) crops ...
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Embryos for sale

Jessica Cussins | 
For those who have struggled with the emotional, physical, and monetary stresses of trying unsuccessfully to start a family by ...
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Myriad BRCA patents under review by SCOTUS

Are human genes patentable? Myriad genetics, which holds patents on two genes that can signal if a woman faces a ...

Gattaca’s future is now, “God help us all”

John Stonestreet | 
Anyone who thinks that the widespread adoption of Whole Genome Sequencing, especially if it’s used in utero, won’t result in ...

Africa caught between US and European GMO politics

Polycarp Machira | 
African countries, Tanzania inclusive, are increasingly getting entangled between two conflicting giants on genetically modified organisms (GMO) issues, and now ...

EU rejects Seralini report linking GM maize to cancer

The EU's food safety agency definitively rejected Wednesday a bombshell French report linking genetically modified corn to cancer, saying it ...

GMO scare: “A lot of hype with little substance”

Ron Smith | 
If an organization has an issue with a product, any product, I agree that it has the right, perhaps even ...
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GM corn in Mexico: Attack on the heart of maize biodiversity

“Corn’s genetic heritage is an intangible asset for all of humanity,” said Carlo Petrini, Slow Food’s president. “We must avoid ...

Texas representative files bill to prohibit human cloning in universities

Alexa Ura | 
More than 10 years after the Human Cloning Prohibition Act failed to pass at the federal level, state Rep. Richard ...

Mexico postpones GMO corn plantings

Nicholas Tomasi | 
A temporary halt on the planting of GMO corn took place on Thursday, Nov. 22 as it was announced that ...

Kenya issues blanket ban on GM food imports

Kwame Ogero | 
The recent Cabinet ban on the importation of GM foods citing health risks was unfortunate. It was clear proof that ...

Scientists: Kenya’s GMO ban will cripple research, deny food to hundreds of thousands

[S]cientists are raising alarm over the blanket ban imposed on genetically modified organisms by public health minister Beth Mugo. Researchers ...
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Gattaca alert: Personal genomics meets neo-eugenics

Jon Entine, Sarah Fecht | 
Eugenics is back into the headlines, thanks to rapid advances in personal genomics. Naturally, not everyone is inclined to greet ...

Opposition to genetic engineering is immoral

Drew Kershen, Henry Miller | 
There’s an old saying that no good deed goes unpunished. That certainly seems to be true for many breakthroughs in ...
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