Genetic Literacy Project
Evolution may contradict ‘dumb jock’ notion
According to a popular stereotype, intellectual achievement and athleticism are inversely linked. Now a controversial view of evolution suggests that ...
DNA tests target Native Americans
The Center for Genetics and Society, which takes an ultra-conservative view of genetic screening and genetic technology, takes a one-sided ...
The global transgenic menagerie
Both sides of the debate over genetic modification in animals -- AquaBounty's “Frankenfish” salmon included -- tend to make it ...
FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary
Here are the four leaked pages of the April 19, 2012 FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary ...
New class of GM mosquito rattles anti-GMO campaigns
The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide whether or not to allow the release of genetically modified mosquitoes to ...
Indian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seeds
India TodayIndian scientists found guilty of marketing contaminated GM cotton seedsIndia TodayCertain tests conducted in 2004 at the National Research ...
Greenpeace’s disinformation campaign against Golden Rice, and science, prevails in China
In late summer, the Asian arm of Greenpeace issued an alarming press release headlined: “24 children used as guinea pigs ...
Genetic pre-natal test opens window to improved diagnoses, stirs concerns
New fetal screening tests using gene chips instead of conventional chromosomal evaluation to identify congenital diseases may ignite a turf ...
Geneticists and physicists collaborate on a DNA dark matter detector
DNA may help out in the hunt for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 25 percent of the ...
Biotech regulation: Are democracy and science in conflict?
Why do GMOs fester in regulatory limbo for so long? Any regulatory agency attempting to address both science and people’s ...
Defeated anti-GMO coalition resurrected as GMO Inside
Defeated at the polls in California, anti-GM forces behind Proposition 37 have resurrected their campaign under the moniker GMO Inside ...
Disease tracking direct-to-consumer genome sequencing breaks $1000 barrier ($695)
Whole genome sequencing, (also known as full genome sequencing, complete genome sequencing, or entire genome sequencing), is a laboratory process ...
Myriad BRCA patents under review by SCOTUS
Are human genes patentable? Myriad genetics, which holds patents on two genes that can signal if a woman faces a ...
Kenya issues blanket GMO ban
Kenya, one of the first African countries to legalize GM technology, used to be recognized as a leader in that ...
Gattaca alert: Personal genomics meets neo-eugenics
Eugenics is back into the headlines, thanks to rapid advances in personal genomics. Naturally, not everyone is inclined to greet ...
Can organics and biotech crops coexist peacefully? Organic lobbyists hope not
Big Organics is accelerating its attacks on the just released USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century report, “Enchancing ...
USDA urges consideration of GMO crop insurance; Organic farmers howl
The USDA's new report, “Enchancing Coexistence,” advocates a crop insurance pilot program for farmers harmed by cross-pollination from GM crops ...
New eugenics and the question of personal choice
Eugenics is back in the headlines. Our ability to examine and manipulate our genes is more advanced than ever. But ...
Anti-GM corn study reconsidered: Séralini finally responds to torrent of criticism
We are now two months into L'affaire Séralini—the publication of a maize rodent study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini and ...
Human enhancement: Resistance is futile?
In the next few decades we may well see see technology currently used to aid the sick and disabled -- ...
Is gene therapy finally emerging from the shadows?
The prospect of using gene therapy to treat diseases—particularly inherited diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis that ...
What’s next for the anti-GM food movement?
The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...
Prop 37 defeated: a retrospective
California's Proposition 37 -- which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods -- failed to pass last night. While ...
Trial lawyer heaven/natural food hell: The real-life consequences of Prop 37
The proponents of California Proposition 37 like to frame the vote as “right to know” issue. If only that were ...
Political correctness alert: Science literacy collapses when male/female genetics are debated
The difficulty in discussing what everyone intuitively knows—males and females are genetically programmed to respond differently, emotionally and intellectually, to ...
Human brains: Could we transfer the mind to other devices?
There is no reason why the complex information processing at the core of human experience -- consciousness, the mind -- ...
As California Prop 37 vote nears, media anti-Prop 37 bias emerges
The latest polls suggest a neck and neck race in the final days of the vote over the California genetically ...
Genetic ethics cops shout “designer babies” to abort life saving therapy
As we highlighted this week in Gene-ius, a dramatic, life-improving breakthrough is on the horizon in gene therapy. Researchers from ...
