GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can't eat chocolate; Marijuana-like 'runner's high'

GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can’t eat chocolate; Marijuana-like ‘runner’s high’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
mRNA technology gave us COVID-19 vaccines. Could it also yield more effective flu vaccines? Yes—maybe as soon as next year ...
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Fine-tuning cocoa yields chocolate with richer flavor, aroma

Just as we have seen an increase in the number of microbreweries making specialty beers, the market for chocolate has ...
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Gene editing could save Ghana’s cocoa from extinction, scientists say

Joseph Gakpo | 
A new study warns that climate change could drive Ghana’s cocoa (cacao) industry to extinction — a fate that scientists ...
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Do you crave sweets when you’re stressed? Blame it on your brain

Achim Peters | 
Although our brain accounts for just 2 percent of our body weight, the organ consumes half of our daily carbohydrate ...
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Talking Biotech: Ethos Chocolate—the pro-GMO candy brand winning over biotech skeptics

Kevin Folta, Rebecca Larson | 
Ethos chocolate hypes its use of GMO ingredients to promote crop biotechnology ...
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Nonprofit farmer coalition launches chocolate brand Ethos hyping GMO ingredients to ‘demystify’ biotechnology

Dave Fusaro | 
What claims to be the first pro-GMO chocolate....was launched in February by A Fresh Look, a nonprofit coalition of some ...
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Can biotechnology help protect the world’s chocolate supply?

Bryce Gray | 
[K]eeping pace with global cravings can be a tall order for chocolate producers — a challenge made even tougher as ...
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We started eating chocolate 1,500 years earlier than previously thought, paper says

George Dvorsky | 
New archaeological evidence suggests humans were cultivating and consuming cacao—the crop from which chocolate is produced—as long as 5,300 years ...
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