Genetic Literacy Project
Anti-GMO groups obsess about superweeds, the non-existent glyphosate-created pest
"Superweeds" is a term bandied about by Consumer Reports, the Union of Concerned Scientists and other anti-GMO groups as a ...
GENeS launches: New project provides journalists, NGOs, policy analysts scientific expertise on breaking stories
Journalists and policymakers take note: GENeS--Genetic Expert News Service--is now live! Turn to GENeS for independent expert analysis and commentary ...
What rocks women? Evolution suggests tall guys with hot cars
In prehistoric times, the more dominant male was the more successful hunter, and he was physically stronger than most other ...
Sex with robots? Androids are coming to our bedrooms and boardrooms
In the near future, people will interact with androids, converse with them, even have sex with them and artificial intelligence ...
Viewpoint: USDA’s ‘zombie’ biotech regulation will not die
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The “corporate culture” at ...
Might astronauts bring back a deadly disease from Mars?
While it's possible that a human pathogen might exist on Mars or on another alien world , the extraterrestrial environment ...
Interactive video graphic: Cool tool to understand the Periodic Table
The periodic table is the most important reference document in chemistry. TED-Ed, a branch of the globally known TED conferences, ...
WHO: Doomsday health crisis looms if we do not anticipate post-antibiotic era
Water sanitation and antibiotics still work well, but antibiotic resistance is growing, and there as signs that water chlorination could ...
Infographic: Are Europeans more opposed to GMOs than North Americans?
What do Europeans really think about GMOs? Are they as skeptical of the technology as is the European political establishment ...
Watch scientist challenge the scare-promoting Food Babe
Food Babe has built her career on denigrating scientists, farmers and food experts. Then she encountered Alison Bernstein, aka Mommy ...
Jeffrey Smith: ‘I know nothing about GMOs but that doesn’t stop me from promoting junk science’
Jeffrey Smith, head of one-man band and rabidly anti-GMO organization Institute for Responsible Technology, has taken aim at two respected ...
Invasion of alien microorganisms: Humans are a walking petri dish, and our genes have been infiltrated
From childhood, we're taught to think of microorganisms as entities apart from us. But they are are really a major ...
Bananas, monoculture and biotech solution: No, Michael Pollan, GMOs do not limit genetic diversity
The Panama disease ravished Cavendish banana is a cautionary tale of the vulnerabilities of monoculture crops. Can biotechnology play a ...
Can biomedical data be boiled down to Amazon.com-style recommendations?
Citizen scientists and research startups have begun to play an important role in creating new data sets for biomedical researchers ...
ActionAid in Africa ensnared by its own ugly GMO cancer scare tactics
Although the UK based NGO is scrambling to distance itself from its fear efforts in Uganda, GLP's African contributing writer ...
Too good to be true: Skepticism necessary when media hype genetic, medical ‘breakthroughs’
Media coverage of genetic ‘breakthroughs’ creates hope for treatments that often never make it out of clinical trials. Complicated genetic ...
Chip off the old block? Fathers pass along more of their DNA, disease problems and all
We receive an equal amount of raw DNA from our fathers and mothers, but dad's genetic trust fund comes with ...
Anti-GMO activists leverage glyphosate cancer reclassification to resurrect discredited claims
The WHO reclassification of glyphosate that's paired with herbicide resistant GM crops has led to a swirl of claims that ...
Space twins: Scott Kelly’s one-year space mission could yield genetic bounty
On a one-year space mission, astronaut Scott Kelly will be the subject of medical and genetic experiments while his identical ...
Fair or Fear: The anti-GMO game plan. You decide
Fair or Fear Mongering? What do you think? (Credit: @chucklasker) ...
In wake of Owen Paterson rebuke of anti-GMO ‘Green Blob’, advocates and opponents play tug-of-war over Africa
Owen Paterson's recent speech on the green lobby's role in blocking GMOs in Africa stirred some strong responses from both ...
You light up my life: High tech gene applied to erectile dysfunction
More than half of men over age 60 have experienced the issue at some time, so if it does happen ...
What happens when Big Data meets Big Ag?
Big Data is the 'next new thing' in agriculture. It's captured the imagination of investors and has resulted in dramatic ...
Buy your telomere testing kit here! Evidence based or psuedo-science?
Companies are soon to release at-home telomere testing for consumers who want to track their cellular age. But the science ...
Australian “contamination” battle highlights divide over GMO-organic coexistence
The appeal of the high profile Marsh-Baxter ruling underway this week in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the debate ...
What should be done with unsettling ‘incidental findings’ in gene screens?
As modern medical testing continues to improve, doctors are increasingly discovering “incidental findings,” an innocent-sounding term for inadvertent but frequently ...
