Genetic Literacy Project

Whole genome sequencing, (also known as full genome sequencing, complete genome sequencing, or entire genome sequencing), is a laboratory process ...

Are human genes patentable? Myriad genetics, which holds patents on two genes that can signal if a woman faces a ...

Kenya, one of the first African countries to legalize GM technology, used to be recognized as a leader in that ...

Eugenics is back into the headlines, thanks to rapid advances in personal genomics. Naturally, not everyone is inclined to greet ...

Big Organics is accelerating its attacks on the just released USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century report, “Enchancing ...

The USDA's new report, “Enchancing Coexistence,” advocates a crop insurance pilot program for farmers harmed by cross-pollination from GM crops ...

Eugenics is back in the headlines. Our ability to examine and manipulate our genes is more advanced than ever. But ...

We are now two months into L'affaire Séralini—the publication of a maize rodent study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini and ...

In the next few decades we may well see see technology currently used to aid the sick and disabled -- ...

The prospect of using gene therapy to treat diseases—particularly inherited diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis that ...

The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...

California's Proposition 37 -- which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods -- failed to pass last night. While ...

The proponents of California Proposition 37 like to frame the vote as “right to know” issue. If only that were ...

The difficulty in discussing what everyone intuitively knows—males and females are genetically programmed to respond differently, emotionally and intellectually, to ...

There is no reason why the complex information processing at the core of human experience -- consciousness, the mind -- ...

As we highlighted this week in Gene-ius, a dramatic, life-improving breakthrough is on the horizon in gene therapy. Researchers from ...

The latest polls suggest a neck and neck race in the final days of the vote over the California genetically ...

Like much that transpires in politics, most of the anti-genetic engineering campaigns we’ve seen over the past 30 years are ...

For more than 20 years, bucking a worldwide scientific consensus, the European Union (EU) has fallen behind much of the ...

Monsanto claims its genetically modified seeds — and all offspring of those seeds — as its intellectual property. If farmers ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a popular television celebrity, is a living example of why talk show health and science should never ...

Stem cell therapy remains a brave new world with a spotty ethical and medical track record. Is that starting to ...

The GLP carried a provocative article this week outlining the latest twist in the emerging debate over genoeconomics—the nexus of ...

The ongoing hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetic modified crops ...

Genetics is scary. That’s the popular and entirely regrettable meme that dominates the narrative pushed by “progressive” and hard right ...

The European Food Safety Authority has weighed in with its assessment of the maize studyby Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research ...

Biopolitical Times, an online publication of the Center for Genetics and Society, rekindled the debate over race with a recent ...

The highly controversial study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini, who as we noted in last week’s update has a long ...