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We need all our tools to feed world in face of climate change, booming global population
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growth in world crop ...
Is western opposition to genetically modified animals hurting developing nations?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We need to double ...
Scientists believe GMO chestnut trees will conserve genetic diversity, local adaptations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Of ...
Time for genetically modified organic grown food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farmers really do ...
EU rules for GMO opt-out may open door to case-by-case approvals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In what follows we ...
GMO crops can’t help poor in developing world unless socioeconomic, political contexts considered
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The majority of GM crops are ...
Why Europe, US went different ways on GMO regulation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why have EU and ...
Australia considering allowing sex-selective assisted reproduction
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australian guidelines for the ...
Study concludes consumers would not view GMO label as warning
There is an economic and political battle taking place in America over the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. As ...
Who has more similar genome: Men and women or males and male chimps?
Gender differences and sexual preferences are frequently a point of conversation. What produces the differences between men and women? Are ...
Does search for ‘intelligence genes’ lead down road to eugenics?
Academic giftedness (I use this in a broad term to cover greater general academic aptitude), it would appear, is largely ...
Genome’s most confusing features a lot more fun when explained through art
How can cells that contain the same DNA end up so different from each other? That is not only a ...
Nigerian GM cowpea trial promising but politics blocks approval
There’s a confined field trial taking place in rural Nigeria. The crop being tested is genetically modified (GM) insect-resistant cowpea, ...
Gene editing to avoid GMO regulations could be solution for food security
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people on earth – don’t have ...
Public concerned more about GMOs created with ‘foreign’ versus ‘apple-to-apple’ gene transfer
In a study recently published in the journal Appetite, colleagues and I examined why some people reject GM technology. Specifically, ...
New genome mapping technique can explain tuberculosis susceptibility
The fight against tuberculosis (TB) has been extended through the use of a genetic mapping technique called admixture mapping. This ...
Sorry, Jurassic Park fans: Scientists focusing de-extinction genetics on saving living species
De-extinction is based on the concept that extinction need not be forever. One way to save those animals and plants ...
Judge GMOs by improved traits not breeding process
Many people have strong opinions about genetically modified plants, also known as genetically modified organisms or GMOs. But sometimes there’s ...
Permitting GMO animal feed but not food creates dilemma under Europe’s new law
It’s all very well choosing not to eat genetically modified (GM) food, or even banning it entirely, but what if ...
Does it make a difference that sex offending has genetic link?
A high-profile piece of research recently suggested that the sons and brothers of convicted sex offenders are more likely to ...
DNA reveals history of European languages, farming, migration
Europe is famously tesselated, with different cultural and language groups clustering in different regions. But how did they all get ...
Do humans really carry pheromones?
The idea of human pheromones is intuitively appealing, conjuring up the idea of secret signals that make us irresistible to ...
Why we crave sugar and why it’s so hard to stay away from it
In neuroscience, food is something we call a “natural reward.” In order for us to survive as a species, things ...
What did the real paleo diet look like?
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look ...
Neuroscience needs to globalize focus on mental health
Neuroscience holds the key to understanding the brain – and to developing more effective treatments for people with mental health ...
Will genome sequencing provide impediment to medicine?
Genomics is increasingly hailed by many as the turning point in modern medicine. Advances in technology now mean we’re able ...
Do fatty and sugary foods affect the brain and make you want to eat more?
Obviously, overeating unhealthy foods can lead to overweight. But looking beyond direct effects on expanding waistlines, our lab studies how ...
Aging dogs can help us understand Alzheimer’s disease
Every 67 seconds someone in the United States is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and new estimates suggest that it may be ...
