Genetic Literacy Project
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, March 13, 2017
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Psychotherapy revival: Can “talk” therapy change our brains and genes?
"Talk therapy" has fallen out of fashion as being more art than science. But new research suggests that psychotherapy may ...
Buying organic food to avoid pesticides? You may want to reconsider
Do you seek out organic fruits and vegetables to avoid those on the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list, fearful ...
Quest for a cure: Gene therapy offers hope for children with rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
A couple strives to help their daughter, who was born with a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a muscle-wasting disease that ...
How 2016 Transformed The GMO Debate And Paved The Way For Consumer Acceptance
The debate over GMO food safety is over, although diehard opponents of farming innovations may not acknowledge it. Consumers want ...
Led by Nigeria, Africa opening door to genetically modified crop cultivation
Africa has been reluctant to adopt GM technology for crop production. Recent developments suggest that may be changing, with many ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Oprah Magazine fumbles ‘inherited trauma’ story, and more
This week’s features: Writer for Oprah Magazine falls for classic epigenetics pitfalls; life insurance company is using methylation data to ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, March 6, 2017
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
CFI Research: Does Celebrity Visibility On Issues Translate To Credibility?
Center for Food Integrity research finds consumers don’t place a high degree of trust in celebrities. Doctors were rated highest, ...
DNA forensics is not an infallible tool — but not because of science
DNA has revolutionized how crimes are solved. But blunders by investigators have thrown a cloud over the use of genetic ...
When Celebrity And Science Collide: Hollywood And The Anti-Biotechnology Food Movement
Celebrityhood does not equate with science knowledge. The opinions of music and media stars are no more relevant to the ...
Bias at The New York Times? Stephanie Strom botches report on bees and neonicotinoid pesticides
Covering food and modern farming has not been the New York Times' strong point, writes GLP's Jon Entine. Is the ...
Weird world of DNA: What’s the best way to help patients with genetic diseases that are not inherited?
The stories of two children, Millie and Hannah, highlight ways that genetic disease can seem to veer from the predictions ...
Perplexing Case Of Consumer Confusion About GE Foods In a ‘Fake News’ World
Information issued by scientific organizations often do not change perceptions. This is especially true for people with rooted 'tribal' beliefs ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Dolly the sheep and aging. Epigenetics is not genetics. Obstacles to gene editing.
This week’s features include: a clinic that doesn't know the difference between epigenetics and genetics; lessons about aging from Dolly ...
How agriculture can lead the way to a lower carbon economy
Cropland, grassland soils and forests can sequester hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 annually. Environmental Defense Fund researchers are ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, February 27, 2017
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
How European-Based NGOs Block Crop Biotechnology Adoption In Africa
European politicians and anti-biotech groups lobby to prevent Africa from adopting or trading GE crops. Farmers have been forced to ...
Avoiding the unexpected: Zika, malaria-fighting gene drive in mosquitoes has built-in safety net
Concerns about CRISPR gene drives and other CRISPR applications have to do with the possibility that something could go wrong ...
Michelle Obama and chef Tom Colicchio form a misguided partnership
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Just when many of ...
Fighting cancer by shifting the body’s immune system into overdrive
Gene-targeted treatments and immunotherapy offer great promise to cure cancer, but they work in less than half of patients and ...
Asian Agrobiotechnology Slowed By Private-Public Sector Tensions And NGO Activism
Asian food security challenged by population growth and rising calorie demands that non GE farming cannot meet. Foreign funded anti-GE ...
Talking Biotech: Shoppers may soon be able to buy pre-sliced, tastier and more nutritious pears
Choosing when to eat a pear is notoriously difficult, for it quickly turns bad. Horticultural genomicist Amit Dhingra is working ...
‘Brain fingerprints’: Will semantic memory identification replace fingerprints and passwords?
Semantic memory identification is an emerging ID technology based on the patterns of electrical signals that your brain puts out ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, February 20, 2017
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Epigenetics Around the Web: Engineering better humans? Fearmongering in Canada? Fake autism treatments?
Epigenetics Around the Web is a weekly roundup of studies and news in the field of epigenetics presented by GLP ...
Is Organic Farming Better for the Environment?
Many consumers believe buying organic is “voting with their dollars” for environmentally sustainable farming. Is that science or myth? There ...
Viewpoint: Will genetically engineered animals finally bring home the bacon?
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. It’s unusual for an ...
