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Armyworms ravaging African staple crops: GM insect resistant crops offer a solution
[Editor's note: The following is an interview with Kenneth Wilson, professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University.] A combination of ...
Hype versus hope: Deciphering news about stem cell breakthroughs
For many people suffering from disabling conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, spinal injury and paralysis, heart disease, and even cancer, ...
How hacking photosynthesis in tobacco can help scientists improve African staple crop cassava
Editor's note: This story describes a publication in the journal New Phytologist. The authors of this story are three of ...
How GMO crops can help feed world’s growing population in time of climate change
Editor's Note: This article was written by Stuart Thompson, a senior lecturer in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Westminster ...
Hidden code regulates harmful mutations of our genome, aiding evolution
On the one hand, mutations are needed for biological innovation, and on the other hand they cause diseases. How does ...
Water Wars? High tech farming, genetic engineering could derail what seems inevitable
More than a billion people around the world have no reasonable access to fresh water. ...just 0.5% of the Earth’s ...
Understanding how genetics influences behavior could motivate people to change
Genetic influence on human characteristics is often misinterpreted. It is wrongly assumed that a behavior that has strong genetic influence...must ...
Gene therapy tourism on the rise as debate heightens over reproductive technologies
One of [the] unintended consequences [of regulating, prohibiting or authorizing the use of new technologies] is “medical tourism,” where people ...
Educational genomics: Tailoring teaching to our individual DNA
[T]he debate around the effectiveness of different learning styles in modern education is as active as ever – with many ...
Why the international seed bank includes no GMOs
The [Svalbard Global Seed Vault] is a frozen cavern in a mountain on the arctic island of Svalbard, halfway between ...
How biologist Jeffrey Gordon’s once obscure study brought microbiome to forefront of health research
Jeffrey L. Gordon is a biologist and director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University in ...
Cancer is a death sentence for many women in low-income countries
A woman diagnosed with breast cancer in most high-income countries is very likely to survive. The opposite is true for ...
What humans share with viruses: Both need as few as 3,000 genes to function healthily
About a half-century ago the estimated number of human genes was in the millions. Today we’re down to about 20,000 ...
Despite controversies, China follows same bioethical regulations as the West
[In 2015], Junjiu Huang and his research team at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the ...
Can genetic engineers use genes from wild bananas to save our favorite fruit?
[Editor's note: The banana, the world's most popular fruit, is sterile. They are propagated by taking either cuttings or suckers and ...
‘Black and white twins’: How genetics, epigenetics explain non-identical identical twins
[Identical twins Amelia and Jasmine aren't] identical...One child has dark skin, black hair and brown eyes while the other has ...
Is editing RNA safer, more effective than DNA for studying, treating cancer?
The causes of damaging changes to DNA are many...As a result, scientists began to consider RNA. If DNA were a ...
Different parts of the brain determine aspects of our unique personality
Both genetic and environmental factors determine someone’s personality. Genes account for between 30-50% of the determination and the rest is ...
Understanding role of ‘risk genes’ in brain key to unlocking mystery of Alzheimer’s
Although the causes of Alzheimer’s disease remain a mystery, genetic research is now providing clues about how the disease develops...By ...
Mothers should birth twins early, at 37 weeks, to prevent complications
Twin pregnancies are at high risk of stillbirths compared to mothers carrying just one baby. This risk increases 13-fold if ...
Why is there no depression gene?
Depression is sometimes categorized as a mental, rather than a physical illness...[but d]epression does run in families, which could mean ...
Do East African distance runners dominate races due to genetics?
More than 10,000 athletes from 206 different nations will compete for glory in [the 2016] Olympic Games...But when it comes ...
GMOs in fight against Zika more than just about eliminating mosquitos
The shadow of the Zika virus hangs over the Rio Olympic Games, with visitors and even high-profile athletes citing worries ...
Why people oppose innovations like GMOs
In a newly released book, Professor Calestous Juma of . . . Harvard . . . chronicles the history of . . . opposition ...
Scientists failure to understand GMO opposition hindering technology’s progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . On ...
Senate GMO label compromise makes information hard to access, says critic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. Senate ...
Synthetic seeds, gene editing could aid agroforestry, conservation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Conservation and renewable plantation ...
Privatization, consolidation of agricultural technology, not GMOs, threaten food security
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .There ...
