Genetic Literacy Project

With almost all votes counted, Maui voters appear to have approved an initiative that bans GMO cultivation in Maui County. The still ...

Breast milk may provide longer-term benefits than previously thought, extending even into adulthood. A study at the University of Western Australia found ...

A new synthetic biology tool called "the telomerator" could boost the engineering of an organism's genetic, chemical base-pair structure ...

In Canada, doctors are challenging legally-held patents on genes. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has taken the case to ...

Cameroon is poised to become the tenth country to grow GMO cotton--a cotton variety modified to express the natural insecticide, the bacterium ...

Bioengineers in the US are developing the world’s first artificial cow's milk made from genetically engineered yeast in an effort ...

In south and southeast Asian nations such as India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, rice is the primary food source, ...

I recently finished Robert Greene's marvelous book, The 33 Strategies of War--a 33 stage journey in destroying your enemies. As ...

More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...

One in ten American children will be treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD at some point in their ...

Many studies (e.g., here) have broached the topic of the taste and ‘quality’ of organic food versus conventional. Robustly, The ...

You inhabit something of a miracle, in engineering terms. Your body consists of trillions of cells, woven together into something ...

Eyeing the weather to understand spring sugar yields has been a rule of thumb but a new paper provides a ...

Animals were slow to evolve on Earth. While the first life forms emerged about a billion and a half years ago, ...

Avigen, a 'wellness' company which promotes antioxidant supplements for pets, says it has done what science cannot - they have ...

New research is uncovering ways of modifying bacterial enzymes to make future antibiotics more specific - and thus less likely ...

Antibiotic resistance has become a hot topic. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill some 50,000 in the U.S. and Europe each year but little ...

The microbiome is one of the hottest current topics in biology. According to various studies, our gut microbial community may ...

Many GMO opponents are targeting the development of Golden Rice--a variation on the Asian staple enhanced with Vitamin A that ...

Scientists are proposing new method of researching genetic disease, which was discussed at the recent American Society of Human Genetics ...

Autism researchers have recently made important strides in figuring out the genetic underpinnings of the disorder. Some results are somewhat discouraging, ...

The Indian government is currently debating whether to life an 18-month freeze on trials of 13 genetically modified food crops, including the ...

Tomatoes are some of the most genetically modified foods in history. What were tiny, strangely-shaped fruits the size of a ...

What anti-GMO activists are billing as the most expensive and comprehensive longterm study of the impact of GMO crops and ...

Why a study alleging Danes are happiest and French most grumpy because of their respective gene pool is not worth ...

Even Nassim Taleb's friends call him a "vulgar, bombastic windbag". Now he's becoming one of the new faces of the ...

The reality of biotechnology is that in order for novel new drugs to get cheap, they first have to be ...

In a scientifically-based future, researchers will be able to tailor the cure to the patient using genetic modification - by ...