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GLP Features

Kiel University study: Double disaster — Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork plan would undermine environmental sustainability goals with no significant economic payoff

Kiel University study: Double disaster — Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork plan would undermine environmental sustainability goals with no significant economic payoff

‘Regulatory Wild West': The US fertility industry is often derisively characterized. Here’s why — and what should be done

‘Regulatory Wild West’: The US fertility industry is often derisively characterized. Here’s why — and what should be done

Dena Sharp, Naomi Cahn

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Does Monsanto sue farmers who save patented seeds or mistakenly grow GMOs?

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

Genetically engineered trees offer dual sustainability benefits: Carbon sequestration boosts and the ability to grow more trees on less land

Genetically engineered trees offer dual sustainability benefits: Carbon sequestration boosts and the ability to grow more trees on less land

GLP Podcast: End climate 'alarmism'; FDA vs kratom; Is 'GMO' ice cream dangerous? Nope

GLP Podcast: End climate ‘alarmism’; FDA vs kratom; Is ‘GMO’ ice cream dangerous? Nope

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs

Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs

Coronaviruses thrive in animals. Could a far more lethal COVID variant emerge in pets?

Coronaviruses thrive in animals. Could a far more lethal COVID variant emerge in pets?

Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation

Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation

COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises

COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises

Featured Articles

‘Regulatory Wild West': The US fertility industry is often derisively characterized. Here’s why — and what should be done

‘Regulatory Wild West’: The US fertility industry is often derisively characterized. Here’s why — and what should be done

Dena Sharp, Naomi Cahn

Kiel University study: Double disaster — Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork plan would undermine environmental sustainability goals with no significant economic payoff

Kiel University study: Double disaster — Europe’s Green Deal Farm to Fork plan would undermine environmental sustainability goals with no significant economic payoff

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

planting gmo seeds x

Does Monsanto sue farmers who save patented seeds or mistakenly grow GMOs?

Genetically engineered trees offer dual sustainability benefits: Carbon sequestration boosts and the ability to grow more trees on less land

Genetically engineered trees offer dual sustainability benefits: Carbon sequestration boosts and the ability to grow more trees on less land

GLP Podcast: End climate 'alarmism'; FDA vs kratom; Is 'GMO' ice cream dangerous? Nope

GLP Podcast: End climate ‘alarmism’; FDA vs kratom; Is ‘GMO’ ice cream dangerous? Nope

Cameron English, Kevin Folta

Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs

Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs

Coronaviruses thrive in animals. Could a far more lethal COVID variant emerge in pets?

Coronaviruses thrive in animals. Could a far more lethal COVID variant emerge in pets?

Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation

Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation

COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises

COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises

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GLP Podcast: End climate 'alarmism'; FDA vs kratom; Is 'GMO' ice cream dangerous? Nope

GLP Podcast: End climate ‘alarmism’; FDA vs kratom; Is ‘GMO’ ice cream dangerous? Nope

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | September 16, 2021

GLP Podcast: Climate change enhances farming? Lawyers target paraquat; NYT vs anti-GMO groups

GLP Podcast: Climate change enhances farming? Lawyers target paraquat; NYT vs anti-GMO groups

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | September 9, 2021

Food & Ag Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

‘We need new tools including genetic engineering’: Climate change is terrible for crops, but great for weeds

Lauren Quinn | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations

David Matthews | Science Business

Insects: The sustainable future of food and feed?

Busani Bafana | Cornell Alliance for Science

Viewpoint: Organic only experiment in Sri Lanka goes awry — ‘The government would do well to listen to the country’s agricultural scientists and not to quacks masquerading as experts’

R Ramakumar | Foundation for Agrarian Studies

Viewpoint: ‘Lots of pain for little environmental gain’ — EU Farm to Fork strategy would reduce yields by 15%, cutting farmer incomes and increasing imports

Viewpoint: Meta-review of 266 studies concludes weedkiller paraquat doesn’t cause Parkinson’s disease

Douglas Weed | NeuroToxicology

Human Daily Digest

News from Around the Web

Dimwitted Neanderthals? Pioneering research challenges ‘outdated’ assumptions about our ancestors

Opioid vaccine that limits relapses during detox treatment is on the horizon

Tracey Romero | Philly Voice

Video: The story of ‘Miracle Millie’, the chihuahua cloned 49 times — and how to (expensively) extend the life of your pet

Ian Bremmer | GZERO

CRISPR gene editing to cure HIV? It’s now in clinical trials

Kezia Parkins | Clinical Trials Arena

‘Junk DNA’: The 98% of the human genome that does not encode proteins is often called useless — but the reality is more complicated

Jake Buehler | Quanta

‘It’s all in your head’: Do thinking and feeling really happen in the brain?

Joe Gough | Aeon

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GLP Library Search

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Agricultural Laws & Regs

Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations

Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations

Viewpoint: Organic only experiment in Sri Lanka goes awry — ‘The government would do well to listen to the country’s agricultural scientists and not to quacks masquerading as experts’

Viewpoint: ‘Lots of pain for little environmental gain’ — EU Farm to Fork strategy would reduce yields by 15%, cutting farmer incomes and increasing imports

Ancestry & Evolution

‘Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet’: Early hominids spread around the world via a once-green Arabia

‘Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet’: Early hominids spread around the world via a once-green Arabia

Virgin birth? It’s actually been observed in about 80 vertebrate species, and most recently, in sharks

Why did humans develop sophisticated language skills while our ancestral cousins, chimpanzees, did not? Studying childbirth could provide clues

Biomedicine & Disease

CRISPR gene editing to cure HIV? It’s now in clinical trials

CRISPR gene editing to cure HIV? It’s now in clinical trials

Think of vaccines more like flame retardants than impenetrable walls. Some people will inevitably get sick

There are still no approved and effective therapies for thousands of ‘long haul’ COVID patients

Biotech Communications

One strategy that appears to sway vaccine reluctants: Appeals to faith

One strategy that appears to sway vaccine reluctants: Appeals to faith

As the dairy industry inches toward adopting ‘regenerative agriculture’ practices, tensions emerge between large-scale operations and anti-corporate purists

COVID vaccine confusion: Why is there so much conflicting advice about if and when to get a booster shot?

Brain / Neuroscience

Obesity, epilepsy, fatty liver and sleep disorders genetically linked to ADHD in adults

Obesity, epilepsy, fatty liver and sleep disorders genetically linked to ADHD in adults

To learn, our brain cells routinely break and rebuild DNA. That insight is sparking a rethink of disease and aging

Automaticity: Why the health benefits of mindfulness are limited and why mindlessness is sometimes better

Chemicals & Pesticides

Viewpoint: Meta-review of 266 studies concludes weedkiller paraquat doesn’t cause Parkinson’s disease

Viewpoint: Meta-review of 266 studies concludes weedkiller paraquat doesn’t cause Parkinson’s disease

Viewpoint: Sri Lanka economic crisis deepens as recently-imposed chemical fertilizer ban stirs inflation in a country already suffering from the pandemic

Sri Lanka’s plan to go ‘all organic’ and end use of synthetic chemicals leaves staple tea industry in ‘complete disarray’

GLP Podcast: End climate 'alarmism'; FDA vs kratom; Is 'GMO' ice cream dangerous? Nope

GLP Podcast: End climate ‘alarmism’; FDA vs kratom; Is ‘GMO’ ice cream dangerous? Nope

For the first time, India opens gates to imported GM farm products for use as animal feed

Viewpoint: Why criticism of the Green Revolution is misplaced

How tall will your children be? Here are the nature versus nurture factors

How tall will your children be? Here are the nature versus nurture factors

‘Genetic pain’: Prince Harry’s comments stir controversial debate over whether we can inherit our parents’ traumas

CRISPRoff: Gene editing epigenetic method allows researchers to turn most genes in the human genome on and off without altering DNA sequences

Gene Editing / CRISPR

‘Junk DNA’: The 98% of the human genome that does not encode proteins is often called useless — but the reality is more complicated

‘Junk DNA’: The 98% of the human genome that does not encode proteins is often called useless — but the reality is more complicated

DNA in space: First CRISPR gene-editing study by astronauts opens door to future experimentation

CRISPR opens the door to altering nature. What could go right — and wrong?

‘Optogenetics’ miracle? Gene therapy and high-tech goggles partially restore sight to man blinded for 40 years

‘Optogenetics’ miracle? Gene therapy and high-tech goggles partially restore sight to man blinded for 40 years

Is science finally getting gene therapy right in the effort to fight intractable diseases?

Infographic: Gene therapy drugs that silence the effects of faulty genes could help tackle Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases

Health & Wellness

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

Viewpoint: Did men evolve to be better athletes than women? Here’s a rethink

Viewpoint: Meta-review of 266 studies concludes weedkiller paraquat doesn’t cause Parkinson’s disease

‘It’s all in your head’: Do thinking and feeling really happen in the brain?

New Breeding Techniques

Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations

Britain poised to dramatically overhaul outdated, restrictive EU genetically engineered crop and animal regulations

Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs

While Africa seeks to harmonize crop biotechnology regulations, activists ‘corporate infiltration’ narrative

Personal Genomics

Obesity, epilepsy, fatty liver and sleep disorders genetically linked to ADHD in adults

Obesity, epilepsy, fatty liver and sleep disorders genetically linked to ADHD in adults

Feel refreshed on just 5 hours of rest per night? Some people are blessed with ‘short sleep’ genes

Viewpoint: Can parents select for healthier children? A new tool for predicting polygenic traits kicks off a fierce debate

Science of the Future

Opioid vaccine that limits relapses during detox treatment is on the horizon

Opioid vaccine that limits relapses during detox treatment is on the horizon

Video: The story of ‘Miracle Millie’, the chihuahua cloned 49 times — and how to (expensively) extend the life of your pet

Biologically-modified seaweed could be an ideal eco-friendly plastic packaging alternative

Sustainability / GreenGenes

‘We need new tools including genetic engineering’: Climate change is terrible for crops, but great for weeds

‘We need new tools including genetic engineering’: Climate change is terrible for crops, but great for weeds

Viewpoint: ‘Lots of pain for little environmental gain’ — EU Farm to Fork strategy would reduce yields by 15%, cutting farmer incomes and increasing imports

As the dairy industry inches toward adopting ‘regenerative agriculture’ practices, tensions emerge between large-scale operations and anti-corporate purists

Synthetic Biology

Cheese without the cow? Lactose-intolerant Shell engineer developing gene-edited soybean-based ‘cheese’ that stretches, tastes and toasts just like the real thing

Cheese without the cow? Lactose-intolerant Shell engineer developing gene-edited soybean-based ‘cheese’ that stretches, tastes and toasts just like the real thing

Viewpoint: OMG! GMO! Killer ice cream? Here’s the latest in anti-biotechnology hysteria

‘We’re successful when our steaks are served at a diner in rural Kansas’: Can mushrooms replicate the taste and texture of animal meat?