Genetic Literacy Project
Hardship during pregnancy has long-lasting effects on child
A lot can happen to a woman during pregnancy that impact the child prenatally, and these residual effects may persist long after ...
Lab-grown miniature organs pave way for research on stomach disease
For the first time, scientists have made lab-grown stomachs in a petri dish. The feat was accomplished at the Cincinnati ...
Infectious Disease: Enterovirus D68 gets its genome sequenced
researchers have sequenced the genome of enterovirus D68, a deadly respiratory illness that has impacted 1,100 people in the US ...
Spontaneous mutations and the genetic mysteries of autism
At least 30% of all autism cases is caused by spontaneous, or de novo, mutations. Lends new weight to hypothesis ...
Science as profane: What superstition of 1752 and 2014 share in common
Today, the Frankenstein story is invoked in exactly the opposite way that Shelley wrote it - it is invoked as ...
Battle of Britain: NGOs and scientists clash over proposal to loosen EU GMO restrictions
Britain has emerged as the key battleground that could determine whether the European Union relaxes its tight restrictions on GMOs ...
Agricultural science is back in fashion for college students: Here’s why
Michigan State University is reporting something this fall that hasn't been the case for 40 years: Agriculture is back, and ...
Genetically modified clean energy from bacteria
Bacteria and other biological organisms can be genetically modified to produce larger amounts of fuel for renewable energy ...
Consumers will pay more to avoid GMOs–If labeling is mandatory rather than voluntary
Will consumers pay more to avoid GMOs and if so, how much? Apparently it depends in part on whether labeling ...
Designer babies: You can screen for cystic fibrosis but intelligence is a ways off
Using a technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, it’s possible to screen embryos for disease and sex before they are implanted ...
Kenya paying steep price for precipitous ban on GMO
In 2011, Kenya was poised to enter the club of GMO growing nations when the National Biosafety Authority affirmed the safety ...
What’s so “natural” about “natural crop breeding”?
One of the most popular arguments of critics of crop biotechnology is the claim that conventional breeding is more "natural" ...
Chimps’ feeding behavior reveals evolutionary history of intellectual development
Food reveals a lot about species' evolutionary past. Organisms are constantly adapting in response to what kind and how much ...
Scientists rebuff Center for Food Safety report alleging chemicals in infant soy milk
Just days before the mandatory labeling votes in Oregon and Colorado, the anti-GMO activist group Center for Food Safety injected ...
Cropland expansion in China has led to dramatic rise in carbon emissions
Over the last 300 years, the population of China has expanded and so has cropland to feed her people. To ...
When you take your drugs might matter as much as what you’re taking
Circadian clock genes help align our bodies with our planet's 24 hour light-dark cycle. Misalignment of circadian rhythms has been ...
Computing with DNA
DNA is exceptionally information dense. In nature it is used to encode the instructions for making living organisms, but people ...
Citizen scientists embrace urban agriculture
City life may not seem conducive to agriculture but all across America, citizen scientists are learning about the latest methods ...
Genetic technologies offer long and short term views of Ebola dangers
High yield genetic sequencers, cell phones and paper-based diagnostics are all being employed to develop a cohesive picture of the ...
Receptor for DEET that repels mosquitoes discovered
More than 200 million people worldwide use DEET, developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and patented by ...
In biotech, no one is afraid of the big, bad wolf (spider)
Spiders are friends and understanding the natural world can help us achieve advances in areas like biotechnology, human health and ...
Stop the ‘flying syringe’: Landscape genetics track Asian tiger mosquitoes
The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is native to Southeast Asia, is an alarming vector for human disease like dengue, chikungunya and ...
Mars bars for brain health? Not so fast
A widely publicized study showed that a component in chocolate may have protective anti-aging effects for the brain. But based ...
Challenging tired arguments against GMOs
Steven Novella of the New England Skeptical Society has a thoughtful and entertaining piece on his Neurologica blog on the seven ...
Two Oregon papers join most others in urging “no” on mandatory GMO label vote
Two more Oregon papers, both conservative leaning, are urging votes to reject the Oregon GMO labelling initiative. Most of the ...
MAOA and CDH13 genes linked to violent crime, but can they explain criminal behavior?
A study published in Molecular Psychiatry has found a link between two specific genes and a person's propensity to commit a ...
One week before vote, Oregon GMO labeling law appears headed for defeat
Following a similar script from California and Washington state, support for the mandatory GMO labeling initiative is losing support as ...
