Featured Stories Sunday, May 26, 2013

Errors cast doubt on landmark stem cell cloning paper

Detective story: How genomics found the culprit in Ireland’s Great Famine

Confusion – scientific and ethical – reigns in the wake of stem cell cloning landmark

Organic industry’s credibility eroded by misinformation about GE foods

Errors cast doubt on landmark stem cell cloning paper
Genetic Literacy Project
Detective story: How genomics found the culprit in Ireland’s Great Famine
Genetic Literacy Project
Confusion – scientific and ethical – reigns in the wake of stem cell cloning landmark
Kenrick Vezina | Genetic Literacy Project
Organic industry’s credibility eroded by misinformation about GE foods
Jon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project

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Ask a geneticist: Race and IQ? Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic

This Q&A with a geneticist offers a crash-course in genetics, race, and intelligence for the curious layperson.
Errors cast doubt on landmark stem cell cloning paper Genetic Literacy Project

Sloppy mistakes cast doubt on claim of first-ever human stem cell cloning success.
Personal genomics and accidental paternity tests Daniel Engber | Slate

What happens when your 23andMe results reveal that your brother is your uncle and your father isn’t your father?
Microbiome: How the bacterial genes in our gut impact us Michael Pollan | New York Times

For every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes.
Genetics continues to garner attention as conservation tool Kenrick Vezina | Genetic Literacy Project

Genetics continues to make headlines in conservation efforts, even if it’s not the species-saving panacea some hope for.

Where in the world are GMOs? Google Maps QUEST

This interactive Google Map shows a variety of genetically modified crops in the pipeline around the world.
Pesticide use is up — have biotech crops backfired? Kenrick Vezina | Genetic Literacy Project

What does increased pesticide use really say about the success or failure of pest-resistant biotech crops?
Voices come out in defense of Monsanto Kenrick Vezina | Genetic Literacy Project

Everyone’s least favorite company has seen stories this week highlight its good side.
AquAdvantage salmon: “Frankenfish” or “Wunderfish”? Emma Pearse | MSN News

Even with approval inching ever-closer for the AquAdvantage salmon, the debate about its safety rages on.
How to recognize questionable information about genetically modified organisms Mary Mangan | Biofortified

A genomics scientists helps lay readers separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to GMO misinformation.

Weekly NewsletterMonday, May 27, 2013

Confusion – scientific and ethical – reigns in the wake of stem cell cloning landmark Kenrick Vezina | Genetic Literacy Project

Credit: Flickr/ newsonline.

Organic industry’s credibility eroded by misinformation about GE foods Jon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project

Organic tomato (Credit: Flickr/ epSos.de).

Detective story: How genomics found the culprit in Ireland’s Great FamineGenetic Literacy Project
In an impressive bit of genomic sleuthing, researchers have used dried potato leaves to decode the genome of the fungus-like pathogen behind the Great Famine in Ireland -- solving a worrisome mystery and accomplishing a scientific first.
Breakthrough GE potato doesn’t brown or produce potentially carcinogenic compoundKarl Haro von Mogel | Biofortified
Biofortified interviews the man behind a new genetically engineered potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried nor make acrylamide, a potential carcinogen about his plants and efforts to navigate USDA approval processes.
Jason Richwine affair raises prickly policy issues on IQRon Unz | American Conservative
The firing of Jason Richwine from the Heritage Foundation for his controversial 2009 thesis on race and IQ reflects poorly on our ability to discuss difficult policy issues, argues Ron Unz.

The ethical conundrum of “expert” bioethicistsNathan Emmerich | Guardian
Even as bioethicists everywhere pontificate in the wake of the recent first successfully cloned human embryo, Nathan Emmerich argues that bioethicists must avoid becoming "secular priests" issuing moral guidance from on high.
California’s activist court rules that GM alfalfa is not a pestHank Campbell | Science 2.0
Despite a track record spotted with anti-science activist positions, California's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's determination that Roundup Ready Alfalfa was not a 'plant pest' under the Protection Act. This case highlights the common practice of anti-science groups abusing lawsuits.
SCOTUS rules Indiana farmer is “seed thief,” upholds Monsanto’s seed patentsJon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project
The Supreme Court ruled that a farmer cannot reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without permission of the patent holder—in this case, Monsanto. The justices all but stated that Vernon Bowman attempted to steal Monsanto’s seeds.

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