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Rogue GMO wheat in Washington State? Latest anti-GMO attempt to pump scare fizzles

Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system ...
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Talking Biotech: University of Kentucky’s Michael Goodin on GMOs saving coffee crop from a killer virus

University of Kentucky's Michael Goodin on GMO technology saving coffee crop from viral threat ...
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Is crowdsourcing key to finding cures for genetic-based diseases like depression?

Fifteen gene loci are linked to depression using 23andMe user data in the most comprehensive study of the disease yet ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Synthetic biologists developing cells programmed to target, destroy cancer

Synthetic biology might be ready to graduate from cells engineered to perform only one task to multiple cells in a ...
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Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears

The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...
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Facebook bows to anti-science activists, shuts down ‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’

Genetic Literacy Project |
Popular anti-quack website shut down by Facebook after protests from quacks ...
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Science communicators condemn Facebook’s censorship of pro-science “We Love GMOs and Vaccines”

Genetic Literacy Project |
Anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists--many of them are the same--have manipulated Facebook to shut down a pro science site, stirring sharp ...
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Do GMOs risk “unintended” health or environmental consequences, as critics maintain?

Concerns about unintended consequences, the backbone of criticism from anti-GMO activists, are actually more likely to occur in traditionally bred ...
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Humans who can’t feel pain pointing way to non-addictive painkillers

Genes linked to pain detection and perception may be physiological targets for new, non-addictive painkillers ...
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GMO sustainability frontier: Helping crops acquire their own nitrogen

Tweaking a crop's genetics to help it fix its own nitrogen could avoid the need for massive amounts of fertilizer, ...
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Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring on Vandana Shiva’s anti-biotechnology crusade in India

Cornell’s Ronald Herring on Vandana Shiva's anti-biotechnology crusade in India ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
t web

Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
t web

Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

Genetic Literacy Project |
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Video: Hillary Clinton endorses GMOs, solution-focused crop biotechnology

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed her support for genetically modified crops and crop biotechnology in a keynote appearance at the ...
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Tale of two sites: Science communication pitfalls covering Alzheimer’s drug

The same drug trial has been covered in completely different ways by various news outlets. It serves as a lesson ...
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Viewpoint: Economist Adam Smith knew a creep when he saw one

This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with the author's permission. “It is remarkable to see ...
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Genetics might help grow perfect cup of coffee

Coffee is in danger around the world, but experimental farmers want to save it by finding a variety that can ...
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Y-chromosome not going extinct, but losing it may be risk factor for Alzheimer disease

The story of the Y chromosome began about 300 million years ago, when the ancestors of mammals diverged from reptiles ...
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How many genomes is enough for US Precision Medicine Initiative?

FDA head says Precision Medicine Initiative should sequence one in every four Americans. Where will that money come from? And ...