Michael White
Viewpoint: Ethical arguments against gene-edited embryos will crumble as technology advances
[Editor's note: Michael White is a genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.] [S]cientists have developed an easy way to ...
Viewpoint: Inequality rooted in social conditions not biology
[Editor's note: Michael White is a professor of genetics at Washington University in St. Louis.] America, we've had a long ...
Precision and personalized medicine will fail if lack of racial diversity in genetic studies persists
The next big thing in medicine is supposed to be precision medicine ...[But we] have a big problem: Our genetic studies ...
GMOs can address animal welfare, environmental, ethical challenges
[H]orns are dangerous, to both farmers and other cows. And so, for safety, millions of calves are de-horned each year, using a ...
Slavery, discrimination profoundly impacted DNA of African-Americans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Understanding the connection between ...
Is the human gene pool in danger?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should we worry about ...
Electronic health records expanding research in medicine, human evolution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, scientists published yet ...
How much of a mutant are you?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Though we should certainly ...
Genetically modified microbes can be made into tiny drug factories
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper out ...
Genetically modifying crops to improve photosynthesis could boost yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Unless we increase the ...
What does it matter if there are non-coding regions of DNA?
John Brockman, the publisher and science impresario who runs the online science and culture salon Edge.org, has asked his provocative, ...
We made love, not war, with Neanderthals
What does it mean to be part Neanderthal? We’ve known since 2010 that if you have any non-African ancestry you ...
FDA backs genetic screening, but struggles against ‘wild west’ of consumer genomics
The FDA's tussle with personal genetics company 23andMe may make the headlines. But in many other ways the agency is ...
Do we need to be protected from our genomes?
The Food & Drug Administration provoked a furious controversy when it recently ordered the personal genetics company 23andMe to stop ...
Whole genome sequencing at birth might change everything
The National Institutes of Health recently funded BabySeq, a project to sequence the genomes of several hundred newborns and determine ...
How climate change is causing species to evolve
Researchers in the new field of "landscape genetics" find that global warming is causing effects that spur species to evolve ...
Wait, could we make a computer out of our DNA?
It's easy to miss the amazing natural computing power of living things. Our brains recognize faces with a facility that ...
Your genome is a post-apocalyptic wasteland
Contrary to what you may have heard, your genome is not a highly sophisticated, finely tuned data storage and processing ...
No scientific debate over GM food safety
It’s no secret that people are nervous about foods made from genetically modified organisms. A July Gallup poll found that 48 percent ...
We still don’t know why we look like our parents
Today, we take it as given that children have inherited genes from their parents, but the idea that parents pass ...
Be a good kid and eat your GE vegetables
The following is an edited excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but ...
Be a good kid and eat your GM vegetables
The following is an excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but “healthier” ...
The threat of genome theft
The following is an excerpt. Most of us occasionally worry that some online mishap, like a misreading of Facebook’s latest ...
