Genetic modification strains old food and drug laws

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an excerpt. When is a fish not a fish but a drug? When government regulators take old ...

Cold-case prosecutors seek DNA from dead California inmates

Jack Leonard | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. Opening a new frontier for solving cold cases, California prosecutors are hunting for DNA ...
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GM foods strain old FDA and USDA laws

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
When is a fish not a fish but a drug? When government regulators take old laws and twist themselves into ...

You wanted GMO food labels? The marketplace is listening

Karin Klein | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. It’s a victory for the consumers who worry about genetically engineered foods that Whole ...

Whole Foods to label all genetically modified products by 2018

Tiffany Hsu | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an excerpt. Whole Foods Market, the supermarket chain known for its organic inventory, said Friday that it ...

Genetically modified foods: Who has to tell?

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. Consumers who believe they have a right to know whether their food contains genetically ...

Controversial bird flu research to resume

Eryn Brown | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an excerpt. Bird flu researchers said Wednesday that they would end a self-imposed moratorium on controversial experiments ...

DNA study sheds light on aboriginal Australians’ heritage

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an excerpt. When modern humans left Africa as far back as 70,000 years ago, they dispersed across ...

Geneticist on DNA privacy: Make it so people don’t care

Eryn Brown | Los Angeles Times | 
The following is an excerpt. Worried that your genetic information could be revealed?  You should be, says Harvard geneticist George ...

Genetic testing helps to preserve Samaritan way of life

Edmund Sanders | Los Angeles Times | 
Samaritans, who trace their roots back about 2,700 years, are best known for clinging to strict biblical traditions that have ...

How to build a better tomato using genetics

Ann Powell | Los Angeles Times | 
Since plants were first grown for food, farmers, and more recently plant breeders, have selected their best plants, saved the ...

Scientists plan to engineer gluten-free wheat

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
People with serious gluten allergies such as celiac disease now have only one tried-and-true option: swear off all foods containing ...
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“Natural” food label means almost nothing

Los Angeles Times | 
GoodFood WorldNaturally, food labeling issue lives onMonterey County HeraldThe campaign against genetically engineered foods didn't disappear with California's defeat of ...

Cheap embryos and the ‘commodification of children’

Alan Zarembo | Los Angeles Times | 
Dr. Ernest Zeringue sharply cuts [IVF] costs by creating a single batch of embryos from one egg donor and one sperm ...

Brazil marshalls GM mosquitoes to battle deadly dengue fever

Vincent Bevins | Los Angeles Times | 
The small, sun-scorched neighborhood of Itaberaba in this city in Bahia state is the leading testing ground for a controversial ...
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California Shakedown: Prop 37 could open floodgates to consumer suits

Robert Greene | Los Angeles Times | 
Under Prop 37, any Californian would be able to sue any seller or manufacturer of a product that contained even ...

Proposition 37 losing in late poll

Marc Lifsher | Los Angeles Times | 
SACRAMENTO -- Backing for Proposition 37, the genetically engineered food labeling initiative, is falling, fast. A new poll by the ...
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Scientists confirm safety and benefits of genetically modified crops

Rosie Mestel | Los Angeles Times | 
There is widespread agreement among scientists that genetically modified plants are not only safe, but also better for the environment ...

Why this health-conscious foodie won’t vote for Prop. 37

Alexandra Le Tellier | Los Angeles Times | 
I thought I’d be first in line to vote yes on Proposition 37, which would require labels on (most) food ...

Science group opposes labeling of genetically modified foods

Monte Morin | Los Angeles Times | 
As California and other states consider ballot initiatives that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods, the American Assn ...
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Designer Baby? Breakthrough gene therapy that could eliminate rare diseases, raises ethical concerns

Karen Kaplan | Los Angeles Times | 
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have replaced bits of defective DNA in a human egg with the equivalent ...
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New gene therapy method replaces mitochondrial DNA, study says

Karen Kaplan | Los Angeles Times | 
Scientists have demonstrated a new type of gene therapy that would – in principle – allow mothers to avoid saddling ...

Prop. 37 is in dead heat

Marc Lifsher | Los Angeles Times | 
Once riding high, Proposition 37, the statewide ballot measure to label genetically engineered foods, has seen its voter support plummet ...

Would Proposition 37 really cost, or tell, consumers more?

Karin Klein | Los Angeles Times | 
Discussions of Proposition 37, the initiative that would require labeling of many genetically engineered foods, tend to bring up two ...

Small California stem cell research brings riches by tapping into to state funds

Michael Hiltzik | Los Angeles Times | 
StemCells Inc. has had rather a charmed relationship with California's publicly funded stem cell program, with some $40 million in ...
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Junk science used to promote Proposition 37

Michael Hiltzik | Los Angeles Times | 
Even if the California ballot measure mandating the labeling of genetically modified food measure goes down, the campaign on behalf ...
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Support for California Prop 37 slipping

Marc Lifsher | Los Angeles Times | 
The genetically engineered food labeling initiative once had a 2-1 advantage but an advertising blitz has trimmed the lead to ...

LA Times comes out against Prop 37

Los Angeles Times | 
There's a growing gap between what grocery shoppers think they know about their food and the reality. Those tomatoes with ...
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