Infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. The Genetic Literacy Project’s infographics illustrate the general understanding of biotechnology and genetics by visually presenting developing stories and data.
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Infographic: Gene therapy drugs that silence the effects of faulty genes could help tackle Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited condition that causes widespread deterioration in the brain and disrupts thinking, behaviour, emotion and ...
The United States has done the worst job at protecting the lives of its younger citizens from COVID — by far
While the elderly have been at the highest risk of becoming seriously ill due to COVID-19 infections, COVID-19 also affected ...
Infographic: COVID rejection ideology — Vaccine skeptics are also prevention skeptics
How many Americans won’t get the vaccine? If the figure is fairly low, the ability of the virus to spread ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 6: Pesticide residues ― Something to worry about?
Just like anything that goes into your body, it’s the dose (the amount) that matters ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 5: Soil health ― When synthetic pesticides are more sustainable than ‘natural’ organics
Most consumers believe organic farming avoids pesticides and prioritizes the health of the environment more than conventional farming. However, this ...
Infographic: COVID variants spreading rapidly throughout the US, stalling post-coronavirus recovery
The country’s vaccine rollout has sped up since the first doses were administered in December, recently reaching a rolling average ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 4: How do organic pesticides compare to synthetic pesticides?
Many consumers choose to buy higher-priced organic produce because they believe organic foods are not grown using pesticides and therefore ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 3: How dangerous is glyphosate?
Although pesticide toxicity and biodegradability has decreased overall during the last few decades, many consumers are still worried about pesticides ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 2: Have pesticides improved?
it is important to balance risks with the benefits that pesticides provide ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 1: Has pesticide use decreased?
What is the truth about crop pesticides and their residues in food in 2018? ...
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Infographic: Here’s where GM crops are grown around the world today
Do you know where biotech crops are grown in the world? This updated ISAAA infographics show where biotech crops were ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
Infographic: Deaths from COVID-19 are far higher than reported estimates
More than 2.8 million people have lost their lives due to the pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis ...
Infographic: South Africa sees surprising drop in COVID-19 cases and deaths despite presence of more infectious and dangerous variant
Since mid-January, confirmed Covid-19 infections in South Africa have fallen from a record of nearly 22,000 a day to around ...
Infographic: Is COVID here to stay? Why the virus may never be eradicated
Nature asked more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus whether it could be eradicated. Almost ...
Infographic: What are TALENs? Another important gene-editing tool to boost sustainable farming
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Infographic: History’s 11 deadliest plagues, from the Antonine epidemic in ancient Rome to COVID-19
The novel coronavirus took just a few months to sweep the globe. More than 2.5 million people around the world ...
Infographic: How dangerous COVID mutant strains develop
Sometime in 2019, probably in China, SARS CoV-2 figured out a way to interact with a specific "spike" on the ...
Video infographic: Extraordinary 3-D view inside a cancer cell
Even something as tiny as a cell is thick enough for specialized cameras to examine in detail. In a process ...
Infographic: ‘You’re not going to wipe this thing out by achieving herd immunity.’ Vaccines alone will not contain COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has raged almost uncontrollably for so long that even if millions of people ...
The truth about the COVID vaccines: Everything you need to know about the fastest vaccines ever developed
The COVID-19 vaccine was developed faster than any other vaccine in history, which has caused some concern to those that ...
Infographic: The evolutionary history of the COVID-19 coronavirus
Reuters analysed over 185,000 genome samples from the Global Initiative on Sharing All influenza Data (GISAID), the largest database of ...
Infographic: When extremely premature babies grow up, they face chronic conditions that researchers are just beginning to understand
For the first time, researchers can start to understand the long-term consequences of being born so early. Results are pouring ...
Infographic: Crop biotech boosts farm productivity $225 billion, improving lives of millions globally
More than 25 years have passed since the first biotech crops were introduced. Since then, genetically modified crops using biotechnology ...
Infographic: How AI facial-recognition research can be misused to target minorities
[A] study, published in 2018, had trained algorithms to distinguish faces of Uyghur people, a predominantly Muslim minority ethnic group ...
Infographic: What are mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and how do they work?
As of 1 December 2020, thirteen vaccines have reached the final stage of testing: where they are being given to ...
