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Organic crop farming in US slides even as demand for organic food increases
The time is ripe for Jeff Bezos to work his business acumen on an area of the US food system ...
Unsustainable farming: Why your organic T-shirt might be bad for the environment
The word “organic” is a powerful marketing tool. In clothing—just as in food—brands love to tout their use of organic ...
Intelligence definitively linked to genetics: Does this open doors to racism?
Your intelligence is partly due to hard work, nutrition, and education. But you can also thank (or blame) your genes ...
Why did the female orgasm evolve? ‘Because it feels good’
In [Richard Prum's] new book, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And ...
What a DNA test could tell you about likelihood of your children getting genetic diseases
My dad died of cancer when I was 11 years old. I have my father’s hooded eyelids, quick temper, and ...
Legal wrangle puts brakes on new strawberry that’s ‘bigger, brighter and stays sweeter longer’
Two retired food scientists are locked in an epicurean feud with the University of California over the fate of the ...
Are 3-parent babies products of eugenics or the desire to save lives?
The most astonishing gene therapy news this year has been the crafting of three-parent babies. The in-vitro fertilization practice, known ...
Ear to the ground: Crops’ roots use sound to find water
A new study from the University of Western Australia’s Center for Evolutionary Biology, published in Oecologia on April 5, [2017] ...
Sequencing entire genome of any species just cracked the $10,000 barrier
In 2003, the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health announced that—13 years and $2.7 billion later—they ...
Unique in our own unique way: Human genomics reveal wider range of variations than we imagined
It’s often said that humans are 99.9% identical. and what makes us unique is a measly 0.1% of our genome ...
Tracking Zika: New genetic tool maps how viruses spread around the world
We remain utterly unprepared to deal with epidemics at a global scale...The good news is that new inventions are continually ...
Viruses ‘talk’ with each other to plan attacks on cells
[Israeli scientists have accidentally] discovered for the first time an instance of viruses leaving messages for other viruses. ... Viruses ...
Nestlé moves towards high tech, genetically tailored nutrition
The modern food movement has brought us to a fork in the road. On one path are people who say ...
‘Organic’ label on non-food products is meaningless
...The Organic Trade Association has asked the government to start regulating non-food products that boast organic marketing claims with the same rigor ...
Lack of data from people of color marring ancestry reports from 23andMe
I did a 23andMe genetic test...[but] I doubt that most 23andMe users realize how paltry the company’s data is for ...
Years of genomic research botched with errors thanks to Excel quirk
A new paper has revealed the vast extent of errors in published genomics research,...[thanks to] an unfortunate quirk of Microsoft ...
Genes major influence on academic achievement–and that makes leftists uncomfortable
A massive and fast growing field in science—behavioral genetics—has a huge body of conclusive evidence that, at first reading, seems at ...
Is growing GMO crops only way to feed India’s booming population?
There’s a food crisis looming over India. Farmers in the country currently lose some . . . ($5 billion) every year to pests ...
Bernie Sanders attacks Senate backers of GMO labeling bill on Twitter
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight is over ...
Genomic research must shift focus onto Africa to fight diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genomic research has proven ...
Will embryo selection, IVF replace sex as primary mode of reproduction?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human reproduction is about ...
Native Americans’ genes reveal devastating impact of arrival of Europeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Geneticists have traced the ...
Genes don’t make entrepreneurs – money does
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We’re in an era ...
Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When agriculture arrived in ...
Women at higher risk for insomnia, thanks to genetics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Women are known to ...
Should embryonic gene modification be allowed to proceed under close surveillance?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Editing human embryos’ DNA ...
Activists warn Monsanto poised to become Big Veggie
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Broccoli, the original superfood, ...
WHO’s IARC’s new target: Red meat, which may be classified, along with glyphosate, as carcinogen
In March, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) made headlines when it declared that glyphosate, ...