Genetic Literacy Project

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue wants to welcome you to his very own podcast – “The Sonnyside of the Farm.” ...

Of all the elements the EU considers in ag regulations, science gets the shortest shrift ...

We look at the progress that’s been made in tackling rare genetic disorders (and the challenges that remain) and we ...

Walking through the grocery aisle, there is an overwhelming number of new superfoods to choose from. Hemp hearts are full ...

People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton ...

Eugene Robinson recovered from his double mastectomy on a hospital porch in Durham, North Carolina. It was August 1956, and ...

Actress Cameron Diaz and fashion entrepreneur Katherine Power are marketing a new brand of "clean" wine using long-debunked claims about ...

Spread by food contaminated by the feces or urine of disease-carrying rodents and endemic to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and ...

Chile’s intense political unrest exacerbated by months of COVID-19 quarantine has temporarily overshadowed a relentless environmental, farming crisis: an intense ...

Blood tests that check for exposure to the coronavirus are starting to come online, and preliminary findings suggest that many ...

Cultured meat, lab grown meat, cell based meat, clean meat, and cultivated meat are all terms used to describe meat ...

Law enforcement agencies keep a watchful eye on environmental groups that have engaged in eco-terrorism, notably Greenpeace and PETA, and ...

For decades there has been a statistical controversy about meat. By statistical I mean it was never a real health ...

A pair of high-profile studies alleges that the health impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals has doubled in five years. Should you ...

Nathan Cofnas is an American philosopher and philosophy PhD Candidate at Oxford University. He is known for his works on ...

Europe’s quest to confront climate change and achieve carbon neutrality is being undermined by “Big Ag”? That’s not my claim. It’s the ...

Osteopath who believes traditional medicine "responsible for killing ... millions of Americans every year" promotes discredited alternative therapies--that he sells ...

As scientists around the world work at an unprecedented pace to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, anti-vaccine proponents are planting ...

Last month, Philadelphia Eagles speedy receiver DeSean Jackson almost got himself released when he shared on Twitter quotes attributed to ...

When Ralph Fisher, a Texas cattle rancher, set eyes on one of the world’s first cloned calves in August 1999, he ...

The power of artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient ...

What exactly happens when you eat a GMO? ...

U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...

In 1980, the year that PERC was founded, I spent three months in the Himalayas working on a wildlife conservation ...

The media regularly reports about deaths from COVID-19 as if that is the whole story. But it's not. COVID-19 doesn't ...

A fearful public accepts conspiracy theories because they offer a sense of control in an uncontrollable situation, says a young ...

In most supermarket aisles you’re likely to come across at least one product that features ‘protein’ somewhere in the title ...

Gene drives may be invaluable tools to control the spread of parasites, invasive species, and disease carriers. But the technology ...