What’s in your microbiome? This startup wants to know

Deepa Seetharaman | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Jessica Richman wants your ...

GM humans? Genes ‘jump’ naturally between species all the time

Gautam Naik | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Scientists have discovered a ...
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Non GMO salt? Water? Food companies exploit GMO free labels, misleading customers, promoting misinformation

Ilan Brat | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Last year, Evolution Salt ...

What is war good for? Reproductive success and evolution, according to new research

Robert Sapolsky | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  What motivates war? Ideology ...

Rising demand for sex selection through IVF poses ethical challenge for fertility clinics

Sumathi Reddy | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  About one out of ...
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Matt Ridley: Greens scare mongering on GMOs, fracking, pesticides blunts access to safer technologies

Matt Ridley | Wall Street Journal | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The public has increasingly ...

Lawsuit challenges fertility clinics’ suppression of ‘free market’ for egg donations

Ashby Jones | Wall Street Journal | 
How much is a human egg worth? The question is at the heart of a federal lawsuit brought by two ...
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Bees not dying; Europe should lift neonics ban

Owen Patterson | Wall Street Journal | 
Brussels banned a class of pesticides to avert a ‘beepocalypse’ that wasn’t happening. Now bugs threaten crops, and farmers may ...

Point-counterpoint: Organic vs. conventional farming—which is best?

Some think organic one day could replace conventional agriculture. But do the technological limits that define organic farming—no synthetic fertilizers, ...
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Andrew Kimbrell vs Nina Fedoroff: Should GMO foods be labeled?

One of the biggest arguments in the food world these days involves products that have been genetically modified. Consumer advocates ...

Is altruism just selfishness in disguise?

David Barash | Wall Street Journal | 
Evolution proceeds by the differential reproduction of genes, so the challenge is to explain the persistence of a trait that, ...
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Cooked food may have given humans evolutionary edge in intelligence

Alison Gopnik | Wall Street Journal | 
The human brain is an exceptionally hungry organ—an energy-guzzling appliance if ever there was one. As you sit still and ...

Pharmaceutical companies join forces to advance precision medicine in cancer treatment

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The National Cancer Institute is launching a major trial in which it will play matchmaker between 1,000 advanced cancer patients ...
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People’s IQs are rising every year, but why?

Alison Gopnik | Wall Street Journal | 
IQ tests are “normed”: Your score reflects how you did compared with other people, like being graded on a curve ...

Can Myriad Genetics maintain hold on breast cancer tests two years after loss of patents?

Joseph Walker | Wall Street Journal | 
Myriad Genetics Inc., used a patent-protected monopoly to become one of the most successful and controversial DNA testing companies in the world ...

Maple syrup may be newest ally in fight against antibiotic resistance

Ann Lukits | Wall Street Journal | 
Maple syrup may help fight disease-causing bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains that often grow in healthcare settings, says a study published ...

How can we best consider the consequences of altering a human genome?

The advent of CRISPR/Cas9 again sees a biomedical technology challenging norms and raising concerns. CRISPR/Cas9 makes it comparatively easy to ...

Organic and biotech leaders clash at summit meant to promote cooperation

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
Can genetically modified crops grow in harmony with their non-GMO counterparts? The debate between the pro-biotech and non-GMO camps increasingly ...
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How will approval of first copycat biotech drug impact consumer costs?

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first copy of a biotechnology drug for the U.S. market, firing the starting ...

EPA limits planting of GM corn to curb pest resistance

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
U.S. regulators for the first time are proposing limits on the planting of some genetically engineered corn to combat a ...

Drug-resistant malaria may pose enormous threat, doctor warns

Shirley S. Wang | Wall Street Journal | 
Despite a sharp drop in malaria-related deaths over the past decade, a veteran doctor here, in the heart of the ...
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Money talks: Some farmers go non-GMO because of price premiums, not rejection of biotech

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
A small but growing number of Midwestern farmers in the United States are moving away from biotech seeds, drawn by the premium price non-GMO crops ...
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Cumbersome regulatory approval of GMOs in China hurts innovation

Chuin-Wei Yap | Wall Street Journal | 
China’s government has too many rules restricting the adoption of genetically modified food, and that’s ultimately hurting its long-term competitiveness ...

U.S. regulators to blame for lack of progress in biopharming

Henry Miller | Wall Street Journal | 
Dr. Henry Miller’s cri de coeur is well-earned: he was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology (too ...

Push for Ebola cure continuing into new year

Global health experts are preparing to test new treatments for Ebola in West Africa that they hope will eventually vanquish ...

Progress and promises of immunotherapy in cancer treatment

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’s stomach ached. The New York City teacher had been drinking cup after cup of coffee as he labored to ...
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Anti-conventional ag movement spurs Big Ag to look to organic pesticides

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
Seed and pesticide makers like BASF SE , DuPont Co. , Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. are investing heavily to ...
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Time lapse video: GMO Arctic Apple, awaiting US approval, does not brown over 24 hours

Tennille Tracy | Wall Street Journal | 
Two sliced apples sit on either side of a clock as a time-lapse video compresses 24 hours into 30 seconds ...
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