Debating pros and cons of gene drives to control disease-carrying insects and other pests

Debating pros and cons of gene drives to control disease-carrying insects and other pests

Alexandra Ossola | Quartz | 
British biotech company Oxitec plans to kick off a months-long experiment in which it will release billions of Aedes aegypti ...
Gene drive technology to reduce threat of disease-carrying mosquitoes works in trials — but larger rollout hinges on regulators and anti-biotechnology activists

Gene drive technology to reduce threat of disease-carrying mosquitoes works in trials — but larger rollout hinges on regulators and anti-biotechnology activists

Alexandra Ossola | Quartz | 
The mosquitoes are coming—and then, hopefully, they’re going. [Soon], British biotech company Oxitec plans to kick off a months-long experiment ...
Viewpoint: Regenerative farming modeled on organic agriculture could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pro-organic study claims

Viewpoint: Regenerative farming modeled on organic agriculture could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pro-organic study claims

Clarisa Diaz, Michelle Cheng | Quartz | 
A recent study by Bain & Company and Nature United, the Canadian affiliate organization of the Nature Conservancy, shows that transitioning to regenerative farming techniques ...
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Electricity from genetically engineered trees: It’s not as crazy as it sounds—but is it ethical?

Anne Quito | Quartz | 
What if trees could provide electricity to cities? .... This surrealist idyll isn’t too far-fetched, say a team of researchers ...
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Gene therapy for Alzheimer’s? Biotech startup suggests new approach, using dementia ‘off switch’

Katherine Foley | Quartz | 
What if there were a single mechanism in the brain that, when faulty, leads to all kinds of dementias? And ...
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Lab-grown burgers? Cell-based steaks? Alternative meat industry scrambles to find consumer-friendly product names

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
The debate over what to call cell-cultured meat remains unresolved—and it could soon develop into a headache for the global ...
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Viewpoint: Consumer genetic tests and scant privacy protections give us reason to be ‘terrified’

Miguel Burger-Calderon | Quartz | 
[Y]ou don’t have to be Orwell to understand that the decision to allow a profit-driven company to analyze a person’s ...
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‘Super rare’ mutation protected Colombian woman from Alzheimer’s disease

Katherine Foley | Quartz | 
Most of the time when we think about genetic mutations, we think about the ones that spell disaster. But sometimes, ...
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Viewpoint: Read the fine print to understand the weakness of consumer genetics tests

Katherine Foley | Quartz | 
Direct-to-consumer genetic tests like Ancestry and 23andMe were mostly the result of innocent curiosity. Geneticists at the turn of the ...
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‘Countries have been invaded for far less’: Why the genetic arms race could start a war

Jamie Metzl | Quartz | 
Imagine you are the leader of a society that has chosen to opt out of the genetic arms race by ...
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First lab-grown burger may cost $50 at anticipated 2020 restaurant debut

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
On April 15, Bruce Friedrich ascended a stage in Vancouver, Canada to give a TED Talk to a packed room ...
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Viewpoint: Marketing restrictions on lab-grown meat, cauliflower rice reveal growing ‘tension’ between food producers and consumers

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
The [Arkansas] state legislature on March 20 passed a measure banning food companies from marketing “cauliflower rice” as “rice.” The ...
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How the news of China’s gene-edited babies blew up

Akshat Rathi | Quartz | 
He Jiankui didn’t wake up on Sunday [November 25]  expecting his world to change. … He knew international attention was ...
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This AI-generated cheeseburger will make your mouth water

Dave Gershgorn | Quartz | 
The techniques that empower computers to make autonomous decisions have become vogue for modern tech companies in the last six years ...
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Fibromyalgia is a disease that eludes diagnosis: Can artificial intelligence change that?

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
There’s no tissue damage that explains the pain fibromyalgia patients experience all over their body, and contemporary medicine struggles to ...
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Less harmful sugar? More efficient sweet silica could ‘shake up’ the food industry

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
The surprising truth about cake is that it’s astonishingly inefficient. So are lollipops, pies, sticks of gum, and cookies, each ...
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Building a better brain model by harnessing the power of AI

Dave Gershgorn | Quartz | 
Neuroscientists have a lot of data on the brain—we can see it, take pictures of it, study it. But for ...
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‘Soulless, metallic robot dogs’ are headed our way

Mike Murphy | Quartz | 
Earlier this year, [Boston Dynamics founder Marc] Raibert said the company planned to start selling its SpotMini robot dogs in 2019, and ...
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What can we learn about ourselves from studying the way animals communicate?

Ephrat Livni | Quartz | 
If you listen closely to the sound of birds chirping, you’ll hear that they’re taking turns. The same goes for ...
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Anti-GMO group: ‘Bayer is now the new Monsanto’

Zoë Schlanger | Quartz | 
Bayer’s decision to drop the name means Monsanto products like Roundup will still be Roundup, but now they will be ...
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Feelings of empathy shaped in part by our genetics

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
Parents are used to getting the blame for their children’s emotional defects. When it comes to empathy, it turns out ...
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Vote to approve glyphosate herbicide shakes up German, EU politics

Jill Petzinger | Quartz | 
European Union countries found themselves at odds on Monday [Nov. 27] over weed killer. After a long deadlock over renewing the ...
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Natural insecticide created with spider venom and genetically modified yeast

Katherine Foley | Quartz | 
Scientists have noticed the powerful punch some spider venoms pack, and have started looking to them for inspiration for all kinds ...
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Video: Why organic and non-GMO labels don’t matter when it comes to eating healthy

Michael Tabb | Quartz | 
[N]on-GMO labels do more than placate people concerned about scientists secretly tinkering with their food. They might persuade people to make ...
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What’s so important about sleep?

Katherine Foley | Quartz | 
It’s common to try to cram more waking hours into each day. About half of people worldwide get less than ...
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Aquabounty and food activists clash over need for labels for GMO salmon

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
Four-and-a-half tons of genetically modified salmon have been released into the Canadian food market, and consumers have no way of ...
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Eugenics redux? Exploring the genetics of ‘success’ and social mobility

Aamna Modin | Quartz | 
[O]ver a century after the beginning of the eugenics movement, scientists are carefully dipping back into the controversial research that ...
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Kenya could become first country to approve GMO bridal bouquet ‘baby’s breath’ flowers

Sarah Wild | Quartz | 
Baby’s breath, a staple of bridal bouquets, could become Kenya’s first commercially grown genetically modified (GM) flower. By introducing genes ...
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