Genetic Literacy Project
Talking Biotech: 1000 Days’ Lucy Martinez-Sullivan on using science to tackle poor nutrition in pregnant moms, infants
1000 Days' Lucy Martinez-Sullivan: Science, social awareness has reshaped nutrition for pregnant women, young children ...
2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein, and Johnson on Food, Farming and GMOs
Here is a GMO policy primer, lining up not just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but also Libertarian Party candidate ...
How epigenetics, our gut microbiome and the environment interact to change our lives
There appears to be an incredible, largely invisible world, of cellular communication, symbiosis, and chemistry occurring between ‘us’ and the ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, October 17, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Anti-GMO activists target public scientists
As the mock trial circus winds down in the Hague, fringe anti-GMO activists plan to reinvigorate their targeting of independent ...
Humans on Mars? NASA must find way to protect us from radiation
Radiation exposure has proven dangerous for Apollo astronauts who traveled to the Moon. But radiation encountered by astronauts flying in ...
Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...
Polio eradicated? Health officials mobilizing against AFM–rare polio-like condition
Cases of a rare condition that is characterized by polio-like symptoms have ballooned in North America and elsewhere. Here is ...
‘Crimes Against Humanity’? Who is behind the International Monsanto Tribunal circus?
Anti-GMO activists are gathering at The Hague this weekend to “hold Monsanto accountable for human-rights violations, for crimes against humanity, ...
Forget about counting steps—Fitbit, other activity trackers won’t help you much to get healthy
Activity trackers may create a false assurance - when people see how much they are walking on a daily basis ...
IARC under fire: Congressman presses investigation of US taxpayer-funded UN cancer agency
Chaffetz, who is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says IARC has a "record of controversy, ...
Talking Biotech: University of Georgia’s Peggy Ozias-Akins on genetically engineering peanuts to fight aflatoxin, allergies
University of Georgia's Peggy Ozias-Akins on engineering peanuts to reduce allergies and presence of aflatoxin ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, October 10, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Myth busting: RNA from GMO foods won’t alter your genes
Biotech critics claim ingesting RNA from food like Monsanto’s Bt corn can change the genes of those that eat it ...
After early setbacks, gene therapy’s comeback nearly complete
After some horrifying early setbacks, gene therapy's back. Researchers have learned from early mistakes to make the therapy safer and ...
Native Americans fear potential exploitation of their DNA
To many tribal people, having a scientist come in from the outside looking to use their DNA to tell them ...
Viewpoint: ‘Advocacy research’ discredits science and aids unprincipled activism
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The scientific research enterprise ...
Will US cut off support for WHO’s IARC over pilloried glyphosate cancer report?
Regulatory agencies in the US, Europe and most recently Australia have concluded that the International Cancer Research Agency botched its ...
Glyphosate in wine and cereal? Why dubious detection methods undermine GMO scare claims
Two NGO commissioned studies found parts per billion concentrations of glyphosate in wine and oatmeal. Are these findings cause for ...
Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto has GMO critics taking aspirin
Politicians and activists have been speaking out against Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto. Should consumers and farmers worry about the increasing ...
How CRISPR could change the world—And why that frightens many of us
Gene editing could revolutionize the world in a way akin to how the personal computer did. Most Americans are unaware ...
How human chimeras could revolutionize science and medicine
The NIH appears ready to fund scientists who want to make and study human chimeras. What can we hope to ...
Talking Biotech: University of Southampton’s Mark Chapman on eggplant’s evolution, benefits of GMO variety
University of Southampton's Mark Chapman on evolution of eggplant, benefits of GMO variety; reflections on Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, October 3, 2016
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Nature busts anti-GMO myth: Gene swapping among plants, insects common occurence
Examining the genes of wasps, moths and butterflies reveals widespread genetic exchange between species. What does this mean for our ...
Men are from Earth, women are too: Sexes not so different when it comes to sex
There are gender differences in sexual behavior, to be sure, but with certain phenomena, women are far more similar to ...
Nobel laureate Richard Roberts: Opposition to GMOs is an ‘indulgence of the affluent’
In June, more than a hundred Nobel laureates sent a clear message to Greenpeace: abandon the campaign against GMOs. Since ...
Hillary Clinton: Evolutionary “grandma hypothesis” meets the grandma candidate
Grandmothers played an important role in the evolution of human social relationships and as generational knowledge sinks. Now women of ...
