Podcast Episodes
Episodes produced for the GLP list the source as Genetic Literacy Project.
The GLP features numerous podcasts from around the web, providing a wealth of biotechnology information. We also host three podcasts:
• Science Facts & Fallacies with Cameron English and Kevin Folta
• Genetics Unzipped – the Genetics Society podcast with Kat Arney
• Talking Biotech with Kevin Folta
Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
Podcast: Healthier cooking oil from biotech soybeans helps battle heart disease, diabetes
Soybeans produce abundant cooking oil, popular with both consumers and the food service industry. However, soybean oil isn't always the ...
Podcast: ‘Artificial womb’ raises awkward ethical questions about abortion, child welfare and health freedom
Biotechnology is fundamentally changing food and medicine. Thanks to genetic engineering, for example, we have access vitamin-fortified GMO crops, plentiful ...
Podcast: AquaBounty to begin raising GMO AquAdvantage salmon in US as soon as April 2019
A land-based fish farm in East Central Indiana will begin raising AquAdvantage Salmon, genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, as soon as ...
Podcast: Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains how to combat consumer fear of GMOs
Dr. Kevin Folta discusses science communication (the communication of science-related topics to non-experts). Part of his work is helping people ...
Podcast: ‘Just the wife’—how sexism in science obscured achievements of four groundbreaking researchers
Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...
Podcast: GMO AquAdvantage salmon headed for US grocery stores after 15 years of regulatory review
When the transgenic AquAdvantage salmon was first developed in 1989, the goal was simple: engineer a fast-growing fish that required ...
Podcast: Genesis of GMOs—How the tools of biotechnology came to be
Following some groundbreaking experiments in the early 1970s, biologists discovered they could move DNA between species. This development launched the ...
Podcast: Geneticist Mary-Claire King nearly quit science—then discovered the first breast cancer gene
Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...