Genetic Literacy Project

Americans are getting heavier and experts aren't sure what to do about it. Cutting fat and carbs out of our ...

It's been ten years of downhill sledding for advocacy groups and activists campaigning to throttle the burgeoning biotechnology revolution transforming ...

A drug given once monthly as an injection could drastically reduce opioid use in the US. Why is it so ...

Craige Mackenzie, Farmer in Methven, New Zealand | June 26, 2018Highlights:New Zealand’s island status has intensified its commitment to sustainable farming‘Wait-and-see’ ...

There's a "toxic 10" group of chemicals lurking in every single food you consume. Listen in to find out what ...

GMO grapes exist, so why can't we buy them? Farmers in the Philippines have access to disease-fighting Golden Rice after ...

The standard story most people know about “GMOs” centers around a handful of commodity crops engineered to withstand exposure to ...

Treating vaccine-hesitant individuals like they are hardcore vaccine "deniers" could backfire as a science-outreach strategy. Can the food you eat ...

In 1875, Harper’s Weekly declared one Lomer Griffin of Lodi, Ohio, to be, “in all probability,” the oldest man in the ...

Scientifically, it’s called ectogenesis, a term coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1924. The technology is on its way. How will ...

Is there a science-based case for organic farming? One professor says yes, but how compelling are his arguments? Environmental Working ...

“Disinformation” is a clever term to relegate the views we don’t like or care to hear to the realm of ...

A major university recently halted a science outreach event because the invited speakers were white men. Has so-called "cancel culture" ...

A controversial study recently suggested that artificial sweetener consumption may be linked to elevated cancer risk. Have food-safety regulators overlooked ...

“Could THIS twice-daily probiotic supplement filled with gut friendly bacteria help beat Long Covid?” That’s the headline in the Daily ...

Over a decade ago, UCLA physician-scientists began using a pioneering gene therapy they developed to treat children born with a ...

Last week, French activist group Extinction Rebellion destroyed 15,000 tons of wheat to prove its anti-GMO bona fides. The grain ...

On a searing hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses ...

The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian ...

The war in Ukraine could have long-term impacts on global food prices. Can we prevent this dangerous outcome? A Japanese ...

mRNA technology gave us COVID-19 vaccines. Could it also yield more effective flu vaccines? Yes—maybe as soon as next year ...

The coronavirus crisis has brought to light the societal downside of ignoring patterned, population-based differences. Consider the latest research findings ...

Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t. In my opinion, far too many species have been lumped together into this one ...

Researchers at the Stanford University Medical School conducted the most comprehensive independent study to date "Are Organic Foods Safer or ...

Farmers in India are growing illegal GE eggplant in hopes of overturning the country's ban on the insect-resistant crop. Anti-aging ...

The rapid development of mRNA-based COVID vaccines has sparked fresh interest in earlier efforts to produce new and hopefully more ...

Anti-GMO campaigners are withering in their criticism of modern agricultural practices, including monocropping, which the introduction of GMOs encourages, they ...

A genetically engineered "GloFish" is swimming freely in Brazil's streams. Should we be worried? Despite a popular conspiracy circulating on ...