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Organic crop farming in US slides even as demand for organic food increases

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
The time is ripe for Jeff Bezos to work his business acumen on an area of the US food system ...
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Unsustainable farming: Why your organic T-shirt might be bad for the environment

Marc Bain | Quartz | 
The word “organic” is a powerful marketing tool. In clothing—just as in food—brands love to tout their use of organic ...
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Intelligence definitively linked to genetics: Does this open doors to racism?

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
Your intelligence is partly due to hard work, nutrition, and education. But you can also thank (or blame) your genes ...
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Why did the female orgasm evolve? ‘Because it feels good’

Leah Fessler | Quartz | 
In [Richard Prum's] new book, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And ...
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What a DNA test could tell you about likelihood of your children getting genetic diseases

Claire Cameron | Quartz | 
My dad died of cancer when I was 11 years old. I have my father’s hooded eyelids, quick temper, and ...
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Legal wrangle puts brakes on new strawberry that’s ‘bigger, brighter and stays sweeter longer’

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
Two retired food scientists are locked in an epicurean feud with the University of California over the fate of the ...
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Are 3-parent babies products of eugenics or the desire to save lives?

Jill Neimark | Quartz | 
The most astonishing gene therapy news this year has been the crafting of three-parent babies. The in-vitro fertilization practice, known ...
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Ear to the ground: Crops’ roots use sound to find water

Ephrat Livni | Quartz | 
A new study from the University of Western Australia’s Center for Evolutionary Biology, published in Oecologia on April 5, [2017] ...
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Sequencing entire genome of any species just cracked the $10,000 barrier

Katherine Ellen Foley | Quartz | 
In 2003, the US Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health announced that—13 years and $2.7 billion later—they ...
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Unique in our own unique way: Human genomics reveal wider range of variations than we imagined

Sharon Briggs | Quartz | 
It’s often said that humans are 99.9% identical. and what makes us unique is a measly 0.1% of our genome ...
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Tracking Zika: New genetic tool maps how viruses spread around the world

Akshat Rathi | Quartz | 
We remain utterly unprepared to deal with epidemics at a global scale...The good news is that new inventions are continually ...
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Viruses ‘talk’ with each other to plan attacks on cells

Akshat Rathi | Quartz | 
[Israeli scientists have accidentally] discovered for the first time an instance of viruses leaving messages for other viruses. ... Viruses ...
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Nestlé moves towards high tech, genetically tailored nutrition

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
The modern food movement has brought us to a fork in the road. On one path are people who say ...
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‘Organic’ label on non-food products is meaningless

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
...The Organic Trade Association has asked the government to start regulating non-food products that boast organic marketing claims with the same rigor ...
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Lack of data from people of color marring ancestry reports from 23andMe

Euny Hong | Quartz | 
I did a 23andMe genetic test...[but] I doubt that most 23andMe users realize how paltry the company’s data is for ...
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Years of genomic research botched with errors thanks to Excel quirk

Jason Karaian | Quartz | 
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

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
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?

Madhura Karnik | Quartz | 
There’s a food crisis looming over India. Farmers in the country currently lose some . . . ($5 billion) every year to pests ...
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Bernie Sanders attacks Senate backers of GMO labeling bill on Twitter

Chase Purdy | Quartz | 
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

Nicholas Ngomi | Quartz | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genomic research has proven ...
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Will embryo selection, IVF replace sex as primary mode of reproduction?

Jamie Metzl | Quartz | 
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

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
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

Aimee Groth | Quartz | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We’re in an era ...
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Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
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

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
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?

Olivia Goldhill | Quartz | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Editing human embryos’ DNA ...
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Activists warn Monsanto poised to become Big Veggie

Deena Shanker | Quartz | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Broccoli, the original superfood, ...
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WHO’s IARC’s new target: Red meat, which may be classified, along with glyphosate, as carcinogen

Deena Shanker | Quartz | 
In March, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) made headlines when it declared that glyphosate, ...
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