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Petition to lift 23andMe FDA ban reaches 10k signatures
Back in November, the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to the genotype-screening company, 23andMe, basically ordering it to ...
The fable of Hawaiian ‘Frankencorn’
Hawaii is the epicenter of a furious campaign to shut down production farms that yield genetically modified seed. It was ...
Different DNA testing companies deliver different results? No surprise (or problem)
The New York Times has published yet another article aiming to prove to readers that genetic testing, especially direct to ...
Is the Food and Drug Administration killing personalized medicine?
The Food and Drug Administration's outdated regulatory requirements are choking pharmaceutical innovations in personal genomics and molecular medicine ...
Will 23andMe spur a run on mastectomies? Probably not.
What are the FDA’s bureaucrats so worried about? Basically that purchasers of 23andMe’s personal genome services will do something dangerously ...
Hawaii anti-GMO activists influence policy by spreading fear of biotech
Reason's Ronald Bailey explores Hawaii's anti-GMO activists, who spread false information to advance their political goals. Both the Hawaii County ...
Fear over light-up plants exaggerated and unnecessary
“What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?” asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at ...
Does the UK’s royal baby deserve genetic privacy?
The prospect of learning about one’s risk of dire disease in the morning headlines does seem unsavory, but at the ...
French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”
French anti-biotech activists are now destroying "hidden GMOs" -- that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding ...
Genetic exceptionalism and privacy
Despite privacy fears, genetic information may be less damaging than other forms of personal medical data ...
GM wheat growing on a farm in Oregon: So what?
The following is an edited excerpt. It's no big deal because the answer is that it is as at least ...
Scaremongers and ignorance might win with “Right to Know Act”
If the "Right to Know Act" introduced to Congress passes, food companies might as well go ahead and slap GMO ...
Peak farmland means more room for nature
The following is an edited excerpt. “Humanity now stands at Peak Farmland, and the 21st century will see release of ...
Top 5 lies about GM crops
The following is an excerpt. The Institute for Responsible Technology, an organization opposed to crop biotechnology, has published a list of reasons ...
Is Obama kowtowing to anti-biotech activists?
Reason (blog)Is Obama Kowtowing to Anti-Biotech Activists?Reason (blog)For the past 17 years, AquaBounty Technologies has been doggedly pursuing Food and ...
