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Florida Keys voters back trial release of Zika-fighting GMO mosquitoes

Kristen Brown | Fusion | 
On Tuesday, voters in the Keys voted by a solid majority to go ahead with a plan proposed by British ...
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White supremacists using DNA tests to prove their ‘whiteness’

Ethan Chiel | Fusion | 
[W]hite supremacists of various stripes who congregate on parts of Reddit, 4chan, and elsewhere are using the genetic testing service ...

For black Americans, DNA ancestry tests contain troubling reminder of treatment of slaves

Cara DeFabio | Fusion | 
There’s now hundreds of ancestry reveal videos on YouTube and Facebook, featuring people looking for answers about the past in ...
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Will new GMO labeling law apply to CRISPR crops?

Kristen Brown | Fusion | 
...Earlier this year, the USDA gave the greenlight to CRISPR mushrooms engineered to not brown. It wrote that because the new mushroom ...
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Lack of knowledge, not fear of science, stands in way of GM mosquitoes

Kristen Brown | Fusion | 
At long last, though, mankind may be on the verge of a mosquito-busting panacea...[F]aced with the Zika crisis, the Food ...
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Kuwait’s DNA collection law could lead to mass deportations

Daniel Rivero | Fusion | 
[A]fter an ISIS-linked man ignited a bomb in a Shiite mosque in Kuwait [in 2015], killing 27, the [government is thinking ...
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Early CRISPR advocate urges biotech peers to consider communal impacts, perform science in the open from the earliest stages

Kristen Brown | Fusion | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two years ago, Kevin ...
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Renewed interest in claims that multiracial people inherently superior

Charles Pulliam-Moore | Fusion | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2006, author Alon ...
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Instead of ashes, you can now save DNA from dead

Kristen Brown | Fusion | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When a person’s time ...

Forensic DNA testing not as reliable as most people believe

Katie Worth | Fusion | 
In the three decades since DNA emerged as a forensic tool, courts have rarely been skeptical about its power. When ...

Should women with high risk BRCA mutation follow Angelina Jolie’s path?

Taryn Hillin | Fusion | 
Angelina Jolie has done wonders for raising awareness about the so-called “breast cancer gene”—the infamous BRCA1 mutation that can greatly ...

A Facebook for sharing your genetic information?

Daniela Hernandez | Fusion | 
Three years ago, biologist Bastian Greshake spit in a vial and sent it off to personal genomics company 23andMe for ...

Genetic markers that make couples work

Zara Stone | Fusion | 
Many things go into the mix to make a healthy relationship: Trust, understanding, a shared sense of humor and a ...
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