ABC News
Articles written specifically for the GLP or the articles that are reposted from other sources (sometimes in modified form) with permission list the source as Genetic Literacy Project. Excerpted articles list the original media outlet as the source. Excerpts are posted under guidelines for Fair Use and Creative Commons for educational nonprofits (501c3). The GLP’s Fair Use policy for posting excerpts and using images is explained here.
Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community
The vaccination drive is lagging far behind in many Amish communities across the U.S. following a wave of virus outbreaks ...
Podcast: The evolution of lying
What is truth? How has it evolved? And what is its impact anyway? Evolutionary science shows that subtle social manipulation ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bt corn is the way to go’ — Why Australia needs insect-resistant GE corn to fight invasive fall armyworm moth infestations
Fall armyworm (FAW) has infiltrated six [Australian] states and territories and is so hard to control farmers are whispering about ...
Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history
Scientists [at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found] two cases of the variant first detected in India using ...
Fighting cancer in humans has opened doors to controlling chemical resistance in weeds
Glyphosate was first introduced into Australian broadacre cropping systems almost half a century ago as an effective way to kill ...
As independent scientists’ do-it-yourself-COVID-vaccines proliferate, bioethicists counter with warnings
"It's actually simpler than most recipes in home cookbooks," said Preston Estep, chief scientist and co-founder of a DIY [COVID ...
What can stop COVID? How do pandemics end?
The promise of a vaccine for COVID-19 is inching closer to reality, with some candidate vaccines already approaching the last big hurdle ...
Systemic racial disparity among lung cancer diagnoses has nearly vanished, study finds
Because of deeply-rooted systemic problems, Black Americans tend to experience disproportionate rates of many common illnesses. However, a recent study ...
Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists
U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...
Coronavirus heart threat: 10-to-30 percent of those hospitalized end up with ‘molecular damage’
More than six months into the global pandemic, studies have shown that COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, ...
Mosquitoes engineered to resist dengue could become gene drive weapon against the deadly disease
Locked in a secure lab near Melbourne is the newest addition in the fight against dengue: genetically engineered mosquitoes that ...
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop: Is she trolling us while ‘laughing all the way to the bank?’
[Gwyneth Paltrow's] Goop first gained notoriety in 2015 when it encouraged women to "steam clean" their vaginas (you already know ...
Video: Study vindicating red meat reignites age-old debate over dietary guidelines, conflicts of interest
It's not the first time researcher Bradley Johnston has had the nutrition community up in arms over his work. Johnston, ...
Why do so many of us dream about flying, falling or being chased?
Most of us experience these so-called "typical dreams" during our lifetime. Around three-quarters of people dream of falling, for instance, and that ...
Meet Francisco Mojica, the scientist who first discovered CRISPR in a Spanish salt marsh
Professor [Francisco] Mojica grew up near the Mediterranean port of Santa Pola in Spain, a region famous for its salt ...
Is religion incompatible with science? Three scientists say it’s possible to have both
Is the conflict between religion and science as deep as some think? We talk to three scientists about how they ...
Second patient added to human gene-editing study, with no side effects so far
A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or ...
Testing ovarian cancer patients for BRCA gene mutations to better understand risk
Thousands of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will be tested to see if they are hidden carriers of the gene ...
3D printed brain-like tissue made from stem cells offers hope to address neurological disorders
Scientists in Australia have used a 3D printer to create nerve cells found in the brain using a special bio-ink ...
Desaparecidos: Gene bank helps identify Argentina’s stolen and missing children
During the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Argentina's military rulers systematically stole babies born to political prisoners, most of whom were then killed ...
Western Australian Labor party officials scrap plans to try to block GMO crops
The Barnett Government changed regulations to allow the growth of GM canola in 2010, and hundreds of thousands of hectares ...
Doctors turn to stem cell regeneration to treat heart defects in babies
The 4-month-old on the operating table has a shocking birth defect, nearly half his heart too small or even missing...In ...
Congressman for Puerto Rico urges use of GM mosquitoes to fight Zika
As the number of Zika cases in Puerto Rico skyrocket into the thousands, Congressman Pedro Pierluisi, the island’s sole representative, ...
Florida community split on using GM mosquitoes against Zika
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With Zika creeping north ...
Federal court weighs appeals of overturned GMO bans in Hawaii counties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight over regulating ...
Smallpox virus found in NIH storage ressurrecting concerns over sample management
Vials of the virus that causes smallpox were found in a National Institutes of Health research building that was unequipped ...
Woman seeks to ban surrogacy
Jennifer Lahl is on a crusade to outlaw surrogacy, the process by which women lend their wombs to would-be mothers ...
Is it wrong to try to breed out breast cancer?
Breast cancer is the latest disease being bred out of families through preimplantation genetic diagnosis – an embryo screening test ...
