Genetic Literacy Project
War in Europe—Battle over glyphosate
The battle over glyphosate rages on in Europe, creating a lot of question marks over whether the popular herbicide will ...
Gene therapy 2.0: Will CRISPR make expensive treatment accessible to all?
Gene therapy, at a million dollars a treatment, will run up a patient's medical bill quickly. Can CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing ...
University of Pennsylvania’s Ashley Winslow uses crowdsourcing to hunt down genetics of depression
University of Pennsylvania's Ashley Winslow talks clinical depression, using crowdsourcing to find genetic markers ...
Can organic farming feed 20 billion people? Yes, no, say opposing experts
"Organic farming can help to both feed the world and preserve wildland. . . .[R]esearchers modeled 500 food production scenarios to see ...
Kenyans sweep distance races, Jamaicans sprints: How evolution has shaped elite sports
The results of the Rio Olympics, especially in track and field events, reinforce the now widely accepted theory that evolution ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Why tomatoes taste bad, how biotech could revolutionize a ‘lost’ fruit—and why you may never eat one
Supermarket tomatoes have a sorry reputation for looking great but tasting like cardboard. Short of growing only heirloom tomatoes, the ...
Epigenetic Zs: Could a bad night’s sleep alter your genes?
Sleep deprivation can not only ruin your day, it may change your DNA ...
Are bees in peril from neonicotinoids? Farmer evidence challenges doomsayers
Will farmers be allowed to use safe effective neonic seed treatments or will hysterical and erroneous reports of bee deaths ...
Olympic health update: Zika vaccines, GMO mosquitoes, and snake oils
There's progress on a vaccine to combat as well as biotech solutions but there are also fake Zika solutions being ...
Will epigenetics play central role in advancement of precision medicine?
For many treatments it remains to be proven whether a drug's epigenetic actions, rather than another mechanism such as stimulation ...
Blind precaution: Europe’s obsession with Precautionary Principle blocks agricultural innovation
The EU has created a regulatory jungle, chocking agricultural innovation, by depending on the non-science based precautionary principle ...
‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’ back, as Facebook lifts block: Neidenbach on home planting of GMOs
What happens if you grow GMO crops in your home garden? ...
Rogue GMO wheat in Washington State? Latest anti-GMO attempt to pump scare fizzles
Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system ...
Talking Biotech: University of Kentucky’s Michael Goodin on GMOs saving coffee crop from a killer virus
University of Kentucky's Michael Goodin on GMO technology saving coffee crop from viral threat ...
Is crowdsourcing key to finding cures for genetic-based diseases like depression?
Fifteen gene loci are linked to depression using 23andMe user data in the most comprehensive study of the disease yet ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
Synthetic biologists developing cells programmed to target, destroy cancer
Synthetic biology might be ready to graduate from cells engineered to perform only one task to multiple cells in a ...
Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears
The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...
Facebook bows to anti-science activists, shuts down ‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’
Popular anti-quack website shut down by Facebook after protests from quacks ...
