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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 ...
Genetically engineered tomatoes squashed?
After using modern techniques to develop and test tomatoes for desired qualities, researchers will turn to more conventional hybrid breeding ...
Golden rice and GMOs: The best solutions to world hunger?
Earlier in the week I wrote an article about genetically engineered food, and why I thought it was a bad idea ...
Science and GMOs are not the bad guys here
Blogger Beth Hoffman, who is like me a Forbes contributor, tells us in a garbled polemic against genetically modified (GM) foods that, ...
Why genetically modifying food is a bad idea
Recently the debate over genetically modified (GMO) foods has heated up again. In just the past few weeks, articles about ...
Is it time for scientist activism against GMO fear-mongering?
In areas of southeast Asia and Africa, vitamin A deficiency is common and can cause blindness. The World Health Organization estimates that ...
Believe it or not, GM was once considered Green tech
Until the German Green Party's politics got involved, GM was seen as a revolutionary success among of the "Green" movement ...
Genetic engineering produces a genuine (regulation) monstrosity
Activists have warned for decades that genetic engineering would create some sort of monstrosity like Dr. Frankenstein’s creature. It turns out ...
Programming language based on the human brain
IBM has developed a new programming architecture based on the language of the human brain, taking us one step closer ...
NYTimes’ “Autism’s Unexpected Link to Cancer Gene”: an old story, made murky
It’s not news that disrupting a gene for tumor-suppressing proteins can result in non-cancer effects on many body systems, including ...
“Organic” is one of the most confusing labels, report says
The label “organic” is one of the most confusing for consumers, says a new report by the Natural Foods Merchandiser ...
You can put lipstick on a pig (GE feeding study), but it still stinks
The following is an edited excerpt. The tiny cadre of anti-biotechnology activists who reside in the scientific community are perverting ...
Deep pockets and enablers behind anti-GM crop destroyers
Within hours of the FBI news release about the recent Oregon sugar beet vandalism, activists and promoters of “natural” products ...
Mark Lynas: From GMO hater to supporter
While U.S. consumers are becoming increasingly more interested in where their food comes from and what goes into it, Europeans ...
Genetically modified RNA scare seems bogus
A molecule as unstable as RNA likely couldn't even make it past our digestive system ...
Fear and loathing of GE at the Los Angeles Times
The following is an edited excerpt. There’s plenty of inaccurate, misleading and ungrammatical information on the Internet, of course, but ...
Alleged danger of GE not looking very real
The following is an edited excerpt. Once upon a time, a food writer triggered a storm of scientific scorn when ...
