Genetic Literacy Project

Autism researchers have recently made important strides in figuring out the genetic underpinnings of the disorder. Some results are somewhat discouraging, ...

Ebola patients show markedly different reactions to the virus. Some survive exposure; others die quickly, while still others experience hemorrhages ...

A new study has entered the debate on whether our political beliefs are acquired through logic and reasoning, or if they ...

During the 1920s, the cartoonist Rube Goldberg became immensely popular churning out cartoons that depicted devices that performed simple tasks in ...

Human Y has been described as a genetic "hall of mirrors" riddled with several regions of large palindromes. Believe it ...

As happened in both California and Washington state, what seemed like an easy path to victory for supporters of a ...

Thailand appears poised to move ahead with growing test plots of a genetically modified papaya, modeled after the GMO Hawaiian papaya, ...

In a scientifically-based future, researchers will be able to tailor the cure to the patient using genetic modification - by ...

A new study on the genetics of a large cohort of kidney cancer patients in Europe finds that exposure to ...

Researchers have created a simple saliva test capable of diagnosing diabetes and cancer, and perhaps neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases, at ...

Organic food should catapult itself to being a $105 billion industry by next year. Times are good, they have a ...

Bacteria and other biological organisms can be genetically modified to produce larger amounts of fuel for renewable energy ...

Will consumers pay more to avoid GMOs and if so, how much? Apparently it depends in part on whether labeling ...

Using a technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, it’s possible to screen embryos for disease and sex before they are implanted ...

In 2011, Kenya was poised to enter the club of GMO growing nations when the National Biosafety Authority affirmed the safety ...

One of the most popular arguments of critics of crop biotechnology is the claim that conventional breeding is more "natural" ...

Today, the Frankenstein story is invoked in exactly the opposite way that Shelley wrote it - it is invoked as ...

Scientists have identified more than 100 genes that appear to play a part in causing autism. Two new studies, the ...

A lot can happen to a woman during pregnancy that impact the child prenatally, and these residual effects may persist long after ...

For the first time, scientists have made lab-grown stomachs in a petri dish. The feat was accomplished at the Cincinnati ...

researchers have sequenced the genome of enterovirus D68, a deadly respiratory illness that has impacted 1,100 people in the US ...

At least 30% of all autism cases is caused by spontaneous, or de novo, mutations. Lends new weight to hypothesis ...

Britain has emerged as the key battleground that could determine whether the European Union relaxes its tight restrictions on GMOs ...

Michigan State University is reporting something this fall that hasn't been the case for 40 years: Agriculture is back, and ...

Spiders are friends and understanding the natural world can help us achieve advances in areas like biotechnology, human health and ...

The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is native to Southeast Asia, is an alarming vector for human disease like dengue, chikungunya and ...

A widely publicized study showed that a component in chocolate may have protective anti-aging effects for the brain. But based ...

Steven Novella of the New England Skeptical Society has a thoughtful and entertaining piece on his Neurologica blog on the seven ...