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Why did humans evolve intelligence?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human intelligence is a biological ...

Syngenta, now Monsanto: What is behind wave of buyouts in seed and chemical industry?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. WHEN DuPont and Dow ...
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China’s policy on GMOs may soon get more permissive

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After years of fierce debate ...
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Hybrid seeds part of ‘green evolution’ that is improving agriculture in Africa

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African agriculture is improving ...

African scientists work to improve cassava using sophisticated genomics breeding

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Staple foods of the ...
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Stem cell therapy takes giant step towards cure for multiple sclerosis

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thirty years ago a ...

Computers with human-like intelligence put to medical use

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Artificial intelligence (AI) can ...

Mysterious ancient organism may be clue to evolutionary origin of nerve cells

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Trichoplax, a flat, sheet-like ...

Societal challenges in the coming age of gene editing

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Because it is so ...

Feeding fish GM chow could protect wild fish habitats but anti-GM campaigners oppose it

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Those who fret about overfishing and those who fret about genetically modified (GM) food are often one and the same. Such ...

Fracking boom opens door to breed biotech bacteria for fish feed

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Something called Methylococcus capsulatus might not sound an appetising ingredient for a meal. Methylococcus is a methanotroph, a bacterium that metabolises ...

Are human beings GMOs?

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Opponents of genetically modified crops often complain that moving genes between species is unnatural. Leaving aside the fact that the ...
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Faustian bargain: Has Huntington’s disease killer mutation contributed to human IQ?

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Huntington's disease is awful. It slowly robs its victims of mobility, wits and emotions. And there is no cure. The ...

GMO rejections suggest Europeans becoming more hostile to science and technology

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The continent of Galileo and Darwin is not about to cast off its glorious heritage. But the boffins have given cause ...

Are Europeans too cautious about science?

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At the end of a hard year Europe’s leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how to revive gasping economies, what to do ...

British opposition toward GMO food softening

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On a damp Sunday afternoon shoppers at Tesco, a supermarket, in south London seem uninterested in discussing genetically modified (GM) ...

Largest GMO study in history confirms safety, cost benefits of GMOs

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The largest GMO study in history, published last week in PLOS ONE, confirms that genetically modified crops have large, widespread benefits. The review ...

Developing new antibiotics from human microbiome

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No novel classes of antibiotic drugs have been produced for 25 years and, though scare stories about the consequences of emerging ...

Cells’ defense systems may play role in causing autism

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What causes autism is a mystery. One theory is that a phenomenon called the cellular-danger response lies at the root ...
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GM mosquitoes could breed to extinction, leaving malaria parasite no host

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Kill the mosquito and you kill the disease. That is the usual approach to controlling malaria. And if done properly, ...
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Economist: In promoting food scare, quirky Vermont could kneecap crop biotech progress

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Will Vermont's GMO label, if upheld, really promote consumer choice as its supporters claim? In reality, feeding the unfound fear ...

Increasing gene transcription factor causes organ to repair itself

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Regenerative medicine—the idea that it is possible to revitalise old, dilapidated tissue and keep a body going when its organs ...

Why it’s not “Rain Woman”

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Autism is a strange condition. Sometimes its symptoms of “social blindness” (an inability to read or comprehend the emotions of ...

Learning to fix a body’s broken genes

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It sounds like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea ...

China Food Fight: GMOs in crosshairs as grassroots suspicion of US simmers

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The anti-GMO sentiment in China has been gaining traction as many activists “describe their cause as patriotic.” Students looking for ...
Economist editorial: 'Green" anti-GMO activists are like 'climate deniers'

Economist editorial: ‘Green” anti-GMO activists are like ‘climate deniers’

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The Economist has come out with a stinging editorial [article access requires free registration], "Fields of Beaten Gold," attacking the ...

Poll: Are GM crops good for biodiversity?

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Our special report, "All creatures great and small," argues that the best way to preserve biodiversity is to encourage growth. Perhaps even ...
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The cultural roots of the US/EU divide on GMOs

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"The Economist" uses youth agricultural education as a device to discuss the fundamental differences between how the US and Europeans ...
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