Brandon Keim
Lundgren whistleblower complaint claims USDA silencing scientists discussing controversial issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Late last year, Jonathan ...
Will next generation of herbicide-resistant crops cause more problems?
The latest in a new generation of genetically engineered crops is poised to enter widespread use—and critics think they'll cause ...
Evolution sometimes happens without conveying advantage
Generally speaking, we tend to think of evolution in purposeful terms: There must be a reason for difference, an explanation ...
Humans are ‘evolvable’ now more than ever
In the most massive study of genetic variation yet, researchers estimated the age of more than one million variants, or ...
Genetics at center of several “battlegrounds” in next 4 years
In the wake of Obama's victory, Wired takes a look at the battles to come in the next four years ...
New DNA encyclopedia attempts to map function of entire human genome
Hundreds of thousands of new genomic pieces, catalogued for the very first time, are contained in the data, which is ...
GM crops + herbicides = Super-Superweeds?
Herbicide-resistant superweeds threaten to overgrow U.S. fields, so agriculture companies have genetically engineered a new generation of plants to withstand ...