Genetic Literacy Project
Another modern myth: Shrinking attention spans
Are modern conveniences and technology causing our attention spans to shrink? No, actually they're just adapting ...
Talking Biotech: Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides
Cornell’s Ronald Herring rebukes GMO link to Indian farmer suicides ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Anti-biotech hidden agenda: Link GMO feed to conventional dairy products to scare adoption of organics
Why is organic dairy, which industry leaders call a "gateway product", so important to anti-GMO movement? ...
Transhumanism and 2016 Presidential race
Trump? Clinton? Johnson? How about Zoltan Istvan, he's the Transhumanist Party 2016 presidential candidate ...
Autism in our DNA? Slew of studies points to genetics as main driver, but there is no ‘autism gene’
Researchers are unlocking the mystery of autism's origin. Yes, it's mostly 'in the genes,' but what that means is one ...
Glyphosate found in 100% of wines tested in California–Reason for concern?
Just because we can now discover trace levels of a pesticide like glyphosate doesn't mean those levels are toxic ...
Fitness and health expert: 10 science-based reasons why I’m thankful for GMOs
Some vocal opponents of GMO foods are in the fitness community. There is a perceived belief that engineered foods pose ...
40th anniversary of NASA’s Project Viking and beginning of search for Martian life
40 years ago, Project Viking first landed on Mars. NASA would conclude that the project found no evidence of life ...
GMO labeling may be more about marketing than transparency
Is GMO labeling really about a consumer's right to know? Or is it about creating doubt about the safety of ...
Designer babies vs. Designing your baby: Can personal genomics harm your children?
You can now optimize your baby's life based on their personal genetics. But should you? ...
Pro-GMO advocates capitulate to support GMO label law: Is this science’s Munich agreement?
Is the GMO labeling bill, which was just passed by both houses of Congress, a loss for advocates of biotechnology ...
Talking Biotech: NAS committee member Neal Stewart on GM crops: It’s all safe, environmentally friendly
NAS Committee member on GM crops: it's all safe, environmentally friendly, has made agriculture more efficient ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Myth busting: Are synthetic pesticides, used with some GMOs, more dangerous than natural ones?
Both organic and conventional farmers use pesticides, but these chemicals are rampant in nature and many natural ones are far ...
NASA’s spaceflight DNA sequencer: What will it do for science and medicine?
DNA sequencing equipment will be on board an upcoming mission to space. If Martian microbes exist, then this is one ...
Can understanding epigenetics help stave off 6th mass species extinction?
Species are disappearing from our planet at an alarming rate, can understanding how they regulate their genes help us save ...
How anti-modern farming agroecology NGOs spread GMO misinformation in Africa
Europe and US-funded NGOs are spreading scare stories about GMO crops. Cornell Alliance for Science and other groups are trying ...
It’s important to know how your emotions influence risk perception
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Science applied to risks–of ...
Has WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shifted from analysis to advocacy?
What is IARC? What is its relationship with the World Health Organization? Was its designation of glyphosate as 'probably carcinogenic' ...
