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Bananas and many staple crops may be doomed to disease if we cannot biodiversify
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the book "Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want ...
Human Genome Project 2: Should scientists synthesize entire human genetic code from scratch?
In May 2016, scientists, lawyers and government representatives converged at Harvard to discuss the Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write), a plan ...
Bee crisis? How intelligent sticky drones could buzz alongside nature’s pollinators
Tiny drones dressed in horsehair and coated with a sticky goo have been attempting to pollinate lilies in a Japanese ...
Genetically modified humans? CRISPR edges us toward ‘revolutionizing life’
The [CRISPR] technique is significant because it gives genetic biologists a powerful tool for gene editing. More importantly, it's cheap ...
770,000 spit samples yield genetic map of America’s post-colonial migrations
Using more than 770,000 spit samples taken from their customers over the last five years, researchers [at the genealogy company ...
Coffee renaissance: Genetics guiding breeders to make a better cup of joe
Genes are the future of coffee. Not nitro cold brewing or beans pooped out by civets, but genes. And coffee’s ...
Unintended consequences? Genetic engineering innovation stifled by Toxic Substances Control Act
[L]ast summer Congress issued reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act, a 30 year old law governing how the EPA ...
Could DNA-tailored exercise become the future of fitness?
Boot camps have become commonplace - but an emerging trend in this fitness space is the DNA boot camp. I signed ...
Promise by GENOs start-up to sequence more genes may not mean more helpful information
Who will be the Apple of individualized genomics? The latest contender is Genos, a genetic sequencing startup that is unveiling ...
Stem cell therapy may enter era of “Inject and see what happens”
According to Congress, the logical way [to bring revolutionary treatments to patients sooner] is the 21st Century Cures Act, a ...
CRISPR’s ability to treat blood disorders illustrates potential as medical therapy
[T]he jury’s still out on whether Crispr will be as transformative as a medical therapy as it has been as ...
From caution to urgency: Climate change, poverty prompting Tanzanians to reconsider GMOs
...In the last 18 months, unusually high temperatures and a brutal El Niño have punished many parts of Africa with ...
Mining Zika for genetic data may reveal how virus evolves, spreads and how it can be stopped
Pardis Sabeti is a computational geneticist who works at the Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, where she pinpoints the genetic ...
Genetic test for breast cancer could mislead women to take drastic action
A few years ago, my mother called with an urgent request...She wanted me to get tested...I immediately said no. BRCA1 and ...
Does drinking alcohol lead to higher cancer risk?
[Researcher Curtis Ellison once publicly stated that a] glass a day can make for a healthier heart and a longer life ...
Human chimera research key to understanding unknown aspects of human development
How is it possible that we understand exquisitely well how worms, fruit flies, and rodents develop, but our own species’ ...
Video: Presenting genetics lab of tomorrow
The latest advancements in biotechnology and gene editing mean scientists need a more efficient and effective lab environment to conduct ...
Bee scientist joins Monsanto to battle varroa mites, save honeybees
About a third of the nation’s honeybees have died each winter over the past decade, and [Jerry] Hayes, an apiary ...
Physicists plan to use people’s DNA in ‘interstellar beacon’ to attract intelligent life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Space is either infinite, or ...
Does labeling GMOs with QR scan codes make sense?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [A] ...
‘Superbug’ resistant to last-resort antibiotic discovered by chance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The woman harboring E. coli ...
Glyphosate, cancer confusion: Explaining WHO’s contradicting reports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Glyphosate poses no cancer ...
How has CRISPR transformed discussion on gene editing?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Spiny grass and scraggly ...
How useful are cancer gene tests?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The cancer genetics startup ...
Marijuana scientists look at genetics to understand weed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The marijuana analytics company ...
Conservationists employ electronic eggs to save vultures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The vultures of Britain’s International ...
One mouse’s brain provided largest neural network yet mapped
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Once upon a time, there ...
Pesticides, fertilizers derived from microbes offer new frontier in agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemicals are out. With ...
