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Viewpoint: African nations leverage gene editing to break Europe’s anti-technology stranglehold on food production across the continent
On the African continent, a dozen genetic-editing projects are being put at the forefront of agriculture. However, for the past 20 ...
Developing a biological balancing act: How can we target disease-causing insects while sparing beneficial ones?
Insecticides are our traditional way of defending ourselves against insects. But this approach presents several problems. For one, there is ...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: How plants recruit predators to control pests
Plants may seem defenseless against insects, having neither hands nor tail to brush them away. But many produce potent repellent chemicals, ...
‘An ancestral form of art’: Homo naledi orchestrated elaborate funerals for their dead — but they had brains the size of a chimpanzee
A team of paleontologists believe they have found evidence of ceremonial burials dating back 240,000 years, long before our species, Homo sapiens, came ...
Prehistoric jewelry: Scientists pull 20,000-year-old human DNA from necklace made from deer teeth using new extraction technique
The innovative method for obtaining genetic material allows us to link archaeological artifacts with the people who touched them ...
‘Supercells have changed my life’: The $3 million sickle cell disease CRISPR cure
The case of American Victoria Gray shows the hope of new CRISPR therapies, but also their problems: they will cost ...
Do you drink alcohol or smoke tobacco? Your genes may play a role
Study reveals that some people could be genetically predisposed to consuming alcohol and tobacco Research shows that, while cultural influence ...
Viewpoint: ‘The WEIRDest People in the World’ resolves the nature-nurture debate with dazzling eloquence
Joseph Henrich’s extraordinary book, The WEIRDest People in the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), resolves the nature-nurture debate with ...
Why do some people live longer than others? This ‘lifespan machine’ scans thousands of worms every day to unlock the secrets of aging
Not far from the popular Barceloneta beach in Barcelona, Spain, an underground room houses 35 office scanners stored in refrigerated ...
CRISPR co-creator Emmanuelle Charpentier: ‘Studying microbes can solve some of the biggest problems facing humanity, including how our metabolisms and brains work’
In early September, CRISPR co-creator Emmanuelle Charpentier traveled to Yerevan, Armenia to be one of the main speakers at the ...
Selling a myth: Former OXFAM development expert on why agroecology cannot address global food security
Agriculture shares with education the dubious honor of being a field of knowledge where everyone feels empowered to give their ...
Is high cholesterol a red alarm? It’s time to reassess the meaning of blood lipid levels
We’ve all been born under the stigma of cholesterol. From the day you were born, the cholesterol in your food ...
South America projected to overtake US in GMO soy production, accelerate corn output by 2026
Brazil will outperform the United States as the world's largest soy producer in the next decade, While the increase in maize ...
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan: Nobel scientist says GMO objections by people who have never known hunger
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, winner ...
GM maize more environmentally friendly than conventional
Spain, one European country that favors genetically modified (GM) crops, claims that transgenic maize is more environmentally friendly than the ...
