Genetic Literacy Project
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 -- ...
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 ...
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 ...
Follow the money: Roots of the anti-genetic engineering movement
Like much that transpires in politics, most of the anti-genetic engineering campaigns we’ve seen over the past 30 years are ...
Supreme Court to hear farmer’s challenge Monsanto’s intellectual property restrictions
Monsanto claims its genetically modified seeds — and all offspring of those seeds — as its intellectual property. If farmers ...
Europe lags Uruguay, Pakistan, Philippines in biotech crop cultivation
For more than 20 years, bucking a worldwide scientific consensus, the European Union (EU) has fallen behind much of the ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Pop health expert hosts anti-GM foods rant; Scientists respond
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a popular television celebrity, is a living example of why talk show health and science should never ...
Wild West of stem cells?
Stem cell therapy remains a brave new world with a spotty ethical and medical track record. Is that starting to ...
Genoeconomics: Is our financial future in our chromosomes?
The GLP carried a provocative article this week outlining the latest twist in the emerging debate over genoeconomics—the nexus of ...
Scientists challenge organic backer Benbrook claims that GM crops increase pesticide spraying
The ongoing hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetic modified crops ...
Disturbing trend: Journalists hype fears when discussing human genetics
Genetics is scary. That’s the popular and entirely regrettable meme that dominates the narrative pushed by “progressive” and hard right ...
Séralini scandal week 3
The European Food Safety Authority has weighed in with its assessment of the maize studyby Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research ...
Race in medicine
Biopolitical Times, an online publication of the Center for Genetics and Society, rekindled the debate over race with a recent ...
Turning point from the botched French maize study: GM opponents look like climate deniers
The highly controversial study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini, who as we noted in last week’s update has a long ...
Genetic screens—what’s the prognosis?
Sequencing the whole genome could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale – but could it also ...
Health and safety of GM foods
The battle lines are firming in the debate between the mainstream science community and anti-GM activists about the safety and ...
Wal-Mart resists protesters, will sell GM corn
The protest over Walmart’s decision to sell genetically modified sweet corn is building. Opponents of GM foods are alarmed and ...
Organic myth: No evidence that expensive ‘natural’ foods are healthier or better for the environment
There is remarkably little difference in nutritional value or risk for bacterial contamination between more expensive organic and conventional foods ...
US court upholds federal funding for stem cell research
A federal appeals court has ruled that because no human embryos are destroyed in human embryonic stem cell research studies ...
Golden Rice, set for debut, will be great source of Vitamin A, study shows
A new study found that Golden Rice is just as good, and even better than supplements and other foods at ...
Genetic patent stunner: Myriad wins appeal, retains patent to BRCA tests
Snubbing a recommendation by the Supreme Court, a federal appeals court in Washington, in a 2:1 decision, upheld patents issued ...
Controversy heats up over whether or not modern humans may have mated with Neanderthals
Over the years, there have been many studies regarding the possibility of whether or not humans and Neanderthals really interbred- ...
23andMe seeks FDA approval for personalized genetic tests
23andMe, a pioneer genetic testing company, is asking the FDA to approve a personalized DNA test- setting off familiar protests ...
High hopes for drought-resistant corn
The United States is having one of the worst droughts recorded in over 50 years. More than three-quarters of U.S ...
To label or not to label? The California GMO labeling initiative gears up for the big vote
The anticipation builds as voters prepare to head to the polls for November’s election. And for those voters in California, ...
The future is now: Gene therapy to take flight in Europe
After many years of crushed expectations, gene therapy could be close to a victory: a regulatory approval ...
Florida could gain a new resident: The genetically engineered mosquito
The British biotechnology firm Oxitec has applied to the FDA to release a genetically modified mosquito in Florida to prevent ...
“Agent Orange Corn”: NGOs skirt science, liken Dow’s new seed to Vietnam era pesticide
Researchers have developed a new variety of biotech corn that carries a natural resistance to the herbicide 2,4-D. Some NGOs ...
