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Thankful for science: How pesticides made your Thanksgiving meal possible
This year, you're going to pay 24 percent more for a turkey, a tough bite out of the wallet for ...
Part 2: The hypocrisy of opponents of genetic engineering of food
Logic would dictate that those who are opposed to using gene engineering (GE) in all its forms to grow crops ...
Podcast: Prof Kevin Folta profiles Jeffrey Smith, a leading purveyor of crop biotechnology disinformation often cited by anti-biotech advocacy groups
We must be dedicated to fighting back against false information in food and medicine. Jeffery Smith is a personality with ...
Viewpoint: Irrational moralizing or appropriate caution — Should we be concerned about AI models that profile humans by ‘race’?
In recent years, a wealth of literature has emerged exploring how AI and machine learning (ML) can improve diagnostic precision ...
When the US was hit by polio and smallpox epidemics, the public embraced vaccines with little resistance. What changed?
The year was 1947 – the last smallpox invasion in America. Ground zero: New York City. The carrier: an ex-pat ...
Viewpoint: How distributing misinformation about farming, food and agricultural biotechnology became a big business
Biotechnology began to be applied to crop agriculture in the early 1980s, with the first commercialized products coming to market ...
Seed Speaks Video: Are GMOs sustainable? Can organic feed the world? One size doesn’t fit all
The debate about GMO safety and sustainability is ongoing, but one fact remains: food security is paramount. Does the absence ...
Gene drive revolution: How genetically tweaked mosquitoes could tip the balance in the battle to contain malaria
It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of ...
Viewpoint: African agricultural biotechnology advancing swifty in labs to address food security threats — but implementation slowed by European opposition
From the beginning, genetically engineered (GE) crops (also known as GMOs) have been controversial. Europe has always been at the ...
Viewpoint: Should genetically edited food be on your dinner plate? A synthetic biologist and a sociologist say ‘yes’
Nicola Patron: Oil from soybeans gene-edited to produce a “high oleic” oil with no trans fats and less saturated fat is already ...
Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation
On December 19, 2019, the Kenyan government approved the cultivation of GMO cotton after five years of field trials and ...
Viewpoint: Let’s stop the fear mongering in food labeling
Between his former and current terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack in a 2019 opinion piece called for a ...
Reducing meat consumption to tackle climate change: What role will Africa play?
A burning issue in the world today is climate change. Across Africa, the effects are complex. They range from the ...
Podcast: Are we on the edge of an ‘insect apocalypse?’ GLP Founder Jon Entine debunks this pervasive myth
Could we be on the edge of an insect apocalypse — one that results in 'ecological collapse that would break ...
Viewpoint: IARC — International Agency for Research on Cancer — tries to regroup after blunders on glyphosate and chemical evaluations undermine its former independent reputation
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France was once one of the most respected epidemiology groups in ...
Why the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to surprise us
As people in the US grapple with a return to masking to stay ahead of the delta and lambda variants ...
Skin cancer and screening: The good and the bad of ‘overdiagnosis’
About a decade ago, when he was a first-year dermatology resident, Adewole Adamson learned that “exploding” rates of melanoma were ...
How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species
When I was a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the orangutan habitat. I was fascinated ...
Viewpoint: How COVID has altered the future of US agriculture and the role of biotechnology
The past year has been a doozy. Being locked up for a year and watching half a million Americans die ...
Organic pesticide copper sulfate—unlike glyphosate—is a carcinogen, kills beneficial insects, decimates soil, pollutes water. It also works. Here are political and science reasons why regulators give it a free pass
Europe is currently in a frenzy trying to drum up enough support to dramatically rollback approvals of targeted synthetic pesticides, ...
GLP Podcast: ‘Lefty’ anti-GMO groups embrace lab-leak story; Organic nutrition myths; CRISPR treats crippling disease
Anti-GMO groups have hitched their wagons to the COVID lab-leak hypothesis to keep their flagging agenda alive. Organic produce is ...
Viewpoint: Can agroecology cut European food imports and grow more on less land all while cutting greenhouse gas emissions? It would take a lot
Europe currently is heavily dependent on imports for food products as well as animal feed, particularly soy and corn. But ...
Viewpoint: Seeds of science denialism in Latin America — The most influential anti-crop biotech groups trace their disinformation network to North America and Europe
Earlier in this series on anti-GMO activism in Latin America, we talked about some of the most influential and active ...
X-ray vision to peer into the rubble of collapsed buildings or check for booby traps? The science of the future is now
Within seconds after reaching a city, earthquakes can cause immense destruction: Houses crumble, high-rises turn to rubble, people and animals ...
Organ transplantation: Challenging ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life
At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered ...
Banned in Uganda: While the Irish potato faces disease and climate change, politics stymie farmers eager to adopt still unapproved GM seeds
It's a five-hour drive into the western part of Uganda to Kachwekano Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (KaZARDI), where ...
How CRISPR and other gene-edited crops are regulated in the United States and around the world: A scholarly review
Genome editing in agriculture and food is leading to new, improved crops and other products. Depending on the regulatory approach ...
