Genetic Literacy Project

As often happens in times of medical crises, fringe groups come out from hiding--in this instance, organic activists in the ...

The news that yet another American, New York City physician Craig Spencer, has tested positive for Ebola has stoked an ...

The announcement that Apple and Facebook will start offering female employees a $20,000 benefit to freeze their eggs and delay childbirth has ...

Some neuroscientists are speaking out against "brain games," computer-based games that purportedly improve memory and cognitive functioning, and even claim to ...

Crop Life International presents the "story of seeds"--an animated look at the evolution of germination. Seeds are the basis for ...

The Ethiopian government is inching towards opening its market to more GMO imports, particularly Bt cotton, which could jumpstart the ...

Many commentators frame the various state fights between those who support GMO labeling and opponents as a 'David versus Goliath' battles ...

In high school biology, we all learned that development of a new organism is a complex endeavor ...

When pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella or Staphylococcus invade our bodies, we go into a state of high alert and alter ...

In Down syndrome, the most common chromosomal abnormality in humans, a third copy of all or part of chromosome 21 is ...

How can we hope to feed a world population that is expected to reach 10 billion or more by 2050? That's ...

Millions of people have lately adopted a gluten-free diet by self-diagnosing with gluten sensitivities in spite of the fact there ...

A new study has found that female fruit flies don't simply choose a mate based on things like wing colors. They look ...

A new research effort has identified a genetic mutation that has been overlooked in recent large, comprehensive gene searches - ...

The human body has an unprecedented capacity to move genetic material from place to place, including a packaging and delivery system ...

The Dutch explorer Jakob Roggeveen may not have arrived on Easter Island until 1722 but new genomic evidence finds that the Rapanui people living there ...

Researchers have discovered a genetic variant that arose thousands of years ago in people living in the Arctic. It helped them then, ...

Farming and food conjure up many images in people's minds: romantic visions of hardworking family farmers toiling away on behalf ...

In August, a United States magistrate through out a Kauai law that required seed and chemical companies operating in the ...

Greenpeace is launching another offensive against Golden Rice, promoting organic-based agriculture as an alternative model and promoting alternative forms of ...

Puzzled about how organic pesticides and synthetic ones have such a different perception among Whole Foods shoppers? Here is an ...

The Ebola hysteria underscores how frenzy rather than need drives government responses and resources. Listeria is a disease that's not ...

Both alcohol and cocaine dependence are regulated by epigenetic changes in the brain that begin with abuse. Matched with the ...

While not identifying any specific evidence that pesticides or genetically modified crops might cause environmental or human damage, the NWRS ...

Eat all of the pizza you want? Unlikely, but some people do have a biological disadvantage when it comes to ...

Campaigns for anti-GMO candidates and anti-GMO initiatives and bills are taking place all over Hawaii. Daughter of a papaya farmer ...

The claim that farmers would be able to save their seeds if only the patent rights of seed companies were ...

Women and their offspring exchange small amounts of DNA during pregnancy. Those fetal DNA signatures can last a lifetime in ...