Genetic Literacy Project
That ‘Precision Medicine’ initiative? A Reality Check
What, precisely, is Precision Medicine? It's pretty much everything. The ambition of the plan is admirable, but the hurdles in ...
How activists, sloppy reporters turned genetic firewall story into hysteria-gram on GMO dangers
In the hands of activists and sloppy reporters, breakthrough research on setting genetic 'kill switches' to prevent synthetic genes from ...
Call for action: It’s time to March Against the March Against Monsanto
March Against Monsanto has evolved into a cultural event symbolizing the most strident and scientifically questionable side of the anti-technology ...
Top 6 stories on the GLP, February 2, 2015
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
African elites blame early puberty on GMOs, sabotaging nutrition-enhanced cassava, matooke
It is fashionable in Africa to blame everyinexplicable heath condition on genetic engineered food. It's part of a campaign organized ...
Scientific consensus on GMO safety stronger than for global warming, PEW research center finds
Scientists blame the media and the lack of quality K-12 STEM education for large differences between public opinion and scientific ...
Starship “Egg”: Sending unborn, frozen embryos across interstellar space
Hibernation is a wonderful option for a small crew of explorers, but for a distant planet with an Earth Like ...
Viewpoint: ‘The science of things that aren’t so’ should not drive public policy
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The quality and reproducibility ...
Kevin Folta deconstructs Food Babe’s response to students in scathing fashion
Last week, a group of food science students from the IFT Student Association (IFTSA) wrote a letter to the "Food Babe", Vani ...
Alert for athletes and astronauts: Gene editing moving into clinics, results promising
An elite athlete, a mountain climber, an aspiring astronaut or test pilot—any of these might be a good candidate for ...
GLP radio interview: Girl Scouts refuse to bow to activist pressure to go non-GMO
On Agri-Talk radio, GLP's Jon Entine discusses the Girl Scouts' decision to rebuff anti-GMO activists who are demanding they remove ...
Where are the missing females? Do skewed sex ratios in China, elsewhere lead to social problems?
China views its preponderance of men with increasing alarm, but it is not the only place in the world that ...
Pests invade Europe after neonicotinoids ban, with no benefit to bee health
The neonics ban in Europe may be backfiring as farmers turn topesticides that had been phased out because of potentially ...
Ex Food Babe staffer exposé? Does Vani Hari admit to spinning science for money and fame?
An interesting and revealing exchange with Vani Hari, the self-proclaimed Food Babe, began with an open letter published last week ...
Extending healthy life through gene manipulation: Sounds cool but it’s complicated
There has been a recent flurry of news and excitement about tracing the the genetics of athletic ability, effects of ...
Top 6 stories on the GLP, January 26, 2015
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
Why this year’s flu vaccine wasn’t great and what can be done
The unusually poor effectiveness of this year's flu vaccine calls for renewed efforts to create better vaccines, faster. What do ...
Indian Eco-Goddess Vandana Shiva, charging $40,000 a speech, takes anti-GMO crusade to Hawaii
"What could be more basic to freedom than food freedom and food democracy?” declared Indian anti-GMO activist megastar Vandana Shiva ...
GMO Myth: Farmers “drown” crops in “dangerous” glyphosate. Fact: They use eye droppers
Anti-GMO activists and even some media reports claim that farmers growing GM crops "douse" their fields in "dangerous chemicals," glyphosate ...
Nanotechnology and medicine: Coming of microscopic machines that treat disease
It’s been the stuff of science fiction: Sending miniaturized machines through the human body to repair organs internally, without the ...
Are we locked into our biological clocks? Night shift workers want to know
What are the risks of altering our biological clocks with long term rotating shift work? Can the biolgical clock be ...
Will “non natural” synbio dairy products face same skepticism as GMOs?
Dairy-free genetically modified milk and cheese products could appeal to vegans' environmental sensibilities. But they also face pushback over concerns ...
Buzz on how the housefly genome will help cure human disease
Insects that humans have always regarded as nothing but pests are being exploited for good purposes —as genomic sources of ...
Forget GMOs: Surgeon General has determined that DNA is dangerous to your health!
OMG! Deoxyribonucleic acid risks contaminating all of our food. Where is Gary Hirshberg when we REALLY need him! Just Label ...
Monsanto’s perceived or real evil a creation of capitalism, biotechnology a scapegoat
Monsanto, an American agro-biotech giant with several operational offices and products across the globe has been every Activist’s reference in ...
