Genetic Literacy Project
Who funds the grassroots anti-GMO movement?
A farmer discusses the tactics of anti-GMO leaders and how they use grassroots movements to promote organic products ...
Matching brain with genitals: Complicated neuroscience of gender identity
Finger length, empathy levels and even brain size don’t determine our gender identity. But what does? ...
Gene doping in sports entails challenges and dangers but may not be so dopey
Athletes experimenting with gene doping may not be ethical, but it could lead to potential treatments of human disease ...
Eliminating food waste requires behavioral changes, but GMOs can help too
Economists show solving the food waste problem is more than a matter of avoiding the trash bin ...
Kevin Folta: One year after Lipton’s NYT article, attacks on character continue
Attacks on Kevin Folta continue for perceived "shilling" for Monsanto. Folta responds to latest article, this time from the Alternet ...
Should FDA crack down on stem cell clinics?
Stem cell clinics operating in the U.S. market cures for nearly every kind of disorder without evidence they work or ...
Talking Biotech: Single cell to plant: University of Florida’s Indra Vasil on GMO plant regeneration
Indra Vasil, retired University of Florida professor, on regeneration—Vital step in GMO plant production ...
GMO myth busting: Behold the dandelion, the weed with farm busting superpowers
What does it mean to say that weeds are developing a "resistance" to glyphosate or another pesticide? Is this related ...
How will we use gene editing to treat human disease?
Technology for safe effective germline editing is not ready yet, but once it is, these are some of things we ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, September 12, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
More than half of pesticides used by California farmers are active ingredients approved for organic
Critics of modern agriculture claim organics use few pesticides while conventional framers uses highly toxic ones. Data from our largest ...
Chemical fingerprints: Sensing emotions in a theater and life across interstellar space
How can studying carbon dioxide release from people watching a movie help us detect life on other planets? ...
Emails show anti-GMO organic activists driving food and farming policy at Consumer Reports
Consumers Union says it's an unbiased and impartial voice for consumers. So why is one of its senior scientists secretly ...
Viewpoint: Why are the feds blocking technologies to control the mosquitoes that spread Zika virus?
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. FDA took an unconscionable ...
Talking Biotech: University of Georgia’s Cecilia McGregor on genetics of watermelon; Kevin Folta answers listeners
University of Georgia's Cecilia McGregor on genetics of watermelon; Kevin Folta answers listeners ...
Genome editing: Is it a national security threat?
Is genome editing really so powerful that it could do major damage, either accidentally, or through foul play? Or is ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, September 5, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Message to college students: How your all nighters affect your learning and memory
The all-nighter is now as synonymous with a college student's life as the frat party, but it is detrimental to ...
Farmer viewpoint: Organic sector offers unique sustainability model for all agriculture
Rather than dismissing organic standards as arbitrary restrictions, we should recognize the role that they play in guiding sustainable behaviors ...
GMO high tech farm animals stuck on the shelf
Various genetically engineered animals have shown promise in research. But they wait in the wings with no certainly of whether ...
Mitochondrial therapy—More than “three parent” babies—Stalls in ethical battle
Mitchondria DNA replacement is much more than "three parent babies." It might treat a wide range of diseases ...
Is the organic farming yield gap a sustainability gap too? New study argues for cooperation
Organic farming can't match conventional's yields. But if the acrimony could end, farmers now pitted against one another could crossbreed ...
Talking Biotech: GMO Bt eggplant helps poor Bangladesh farmers cut insecticide use
Cornell's Dr. Tony Shelton on how GMO Bt eggplant helps poor Bangladesh farmers cut insecticide use ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, August 29, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Chimeric organ transplants: Science and ethics of growing human organs in pigs
Scientists may soon offer a solution to the organ shortage by growing human organs in pigs. But that poses prickly ...
Non-GMO label hoodwinks consumers to promote corporate profits
For many products, the Non GMO label simply means exploiting concerns of skittish consumers ...
New drug approved for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, as mystery disease causes come into focus
Viruses and our human genes tend to co-mingle and cause structural and functional changes--is that what's causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? ...
The Buzz: 6 reasons not to worry about the bees
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Bees are in the ...
