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China cracks down on DNA testing
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February, ...
Market for DNA-sequencing-based Down Syndrome tests could top $6 billion
On Wednesday night the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that a new, DNA-sequencing based blood test ...
How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
IVF is better, but not yet good enough
On the occasion of the CDC’s yearly release of IVF clinic success rates, I remind myself and my old colleagues ...
How should Congress and the FDA respond to calls to label foods with GMOs?
According to Henry Miller, a physician and the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, and Drew ...
Could genetic modification help address California’s drought?
Here in California, where most of the state is experiencing “extreme” drought, 2013 was the driest year on record, and ...
This may be the kickoff year for genetically-altered humans
By the middle of 2014, the possibility of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction ...
Florida oranges may need rethink on use of GMOs, neonicotinoids to survive
Oranges and orange juice in the U.S. are under threat from a lethal, incurable bacterial infection known as "citrus greening," ...
Grist for the genetic engineering mill
A “what I’ve learned about GMOs” (“genetically modified organisms”) end-of-the-year column by Nathanael Johnson, Grist’s food writer, would ordinarily not warrant much attention ...
2014: One step closer to genetically engineered athletes
We're closer than ever to having the science to support genetically engineering athletes. Are we responsible enough to handle it? ...
Are GMO-free Cheerios the first domino?
Activists are trumpeting General Mills’ decision to remove GMOs from Cheerios as a watershed moment. It is; but not for the reason ...
Project aims to create DNA barcodes for all species
At first glance, the rather grandiose-sounding International Barcode of Life (IBOL) project seems an arcane scientific exercise. But the database ...
Media missed important message when covering Angelina Jolie’s preventative mastectomy
Angelina Jolie's preventative double mastectomy was one of the biggest genetics stories of 2013. But, new studies show, the media ...
See no evil: Feinstein’s Frankenfood Folly
Activists opposed to modern techniques of genetic engineering have made it clear that they regard labeling as a first step ...
Schizophrenia and lower cognitive ability genetically linked
Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research of Northshore LIJ recently discovered evidence of a genetic overlap between schizophrenia ...
How much information about your genetic code is too much?
The drastic reduction in cost, time and effort to sequence a person's genome is fueling new hopes for what scientists ...
Teaching students to tinker with genetic engineering is good for education and society
Move over toothpick-and-gumdrop skyscrapers! Today's students use synthetic biology's tools to build genetically engineered organisms ...
French scientist Séralini threatens suit after discredited anti-GMO paper retracted
As GLP executive director Jon Entine reports in Forbes, the GMO wars are set to escalate after the discrediting of ...
Kaua’i goes rogue, anti-GMO bill passed over mayor’s veto, contentious legal fight imminent
Kaua'i appears headed for an ugly legal battle as political maneuvering by anti-GMO forces led to the selection of a ...
What’s it like to live in the age of genome sequencing?
Every child born in the United States is today screened for diseases at birth, though the range of testing is ...
Should you have the right not to know genetic information?
Affordable genome sequencing has brought with it a host of ethical debates. Who owns the data? Who can access the ...
Activists should be protesting overuse of antibiotics, not GMOs
Antibiotic resistant bacteria is growing steadily more problematic around the the world, yet activists continue to protest against GMOs rather ...
Food companies should reject anti-science claims and stand up for GMOs
Junk science is stalling important innovations in biotechnology, forcing companies to fold under intense pressure from anti-GMO activists ...
Quest Diagnostics challenges Myriad’s monopoly of breast cancer gene tests
Myriad Genetics, whose patents on two cancer-related genes were invalidated by the Supreme Court in June, could face a strong ...
GMO debate distracting us from more effective food security interventions
While donors may be quickly seduced by talk of "easy," high-tech solutions to hunger, such as genetic engineering, there may ...
Mandatory labeling of GMOs deserves a warning label of its own
Washington State is about to become the latest battleground in a cynical, well-coordinated scare campaign against genetically engineered (GE) foods. Initiative ...
Scientists show that Jurassic Park couldn’t happen
Even when they used the best DNA sequencing methods known, researchers couldn't extract ancient DNA from amber-preserved insects ...
India should create the proposed biotechnology regulatory agency
India should appreciate the importance of genetically improved varieties of crops. The nation’s farmers have been among the greatest beneficiaries ...
