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Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: The biotech advocate anti-GMO groups ‘love to hate’

Emily Moon | Pacific Standard | 
Facing a tide of anti-GMO activism, [UC Davis animal geneticist Alison] Van Eenennaam has taken it upon herself to advocate ...
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Greenlighting of AquAdvantage salmon could ‘pave the way’ to disease resistant pigs and other GMO animals

Emily Moon | Pacific Standard | 
[In March 2019], the Food and Drug Administration cleared the last hurdle for the genetically engineered "AquaAdvantage" salmon—the first (and ...
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USDA set to release final ‘bioengineered’ food labeling rule

Emily Moon | Pacific Standard | 
After a contentious two-year comment period .... a rule requiring companies to label genetically modified foods is being finalized [the week ...
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FDA plan to regulate a gene-edited animal as a ‘drug’ will ‘choke’ research, experts say

Emily Moon | Pacific Standard | 
Despite the Trump administration's calls to increase innovation in biotechnology in a new draft proposal, experts say the classification of genetic editing ...
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With gene drives, we could delete’ an entire invasive species. Should we?

Rowan Jacobsen | Pacific Standard | 
In a windowless London basement, behind three sets of locked steel doors and a wall of glass, thousands of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes cling ...
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Norman Borlaug vs William Vogt on science, environmentalism and human progress

Charles Mann, Kate Wheeling | Pacific Standard | 
Feeding the ever-growing number of people on the planet is hard enough, without having to adapt to a rapidly changing climate at ...
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Viewpoint: Ethical arguments against gene-edited embryos will crumble as technology advances

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
[Editor's note: Michael White is a genetics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.] [S]cientists have developed an easy way to ...
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Viewpoint: Inequality rooted in social conditions not biology

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
[Editor's note: Michael White is a professor of genetics at Washington University in St. Louis.] America, we've had a long ...
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Monsanto, corporations accused of ‘buying scientists’ to place fake news in academic journals

Paul Thacker | Pacific Standard | 
[Editor's note: Paul Thacker is a consultant to nonprofits critical of GM technology. He is well known for his personal attacks on ...
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Europeans left disastrous DNA mark on indigenous Americans

Nathan Collins | Pacific Standard | 
Of the many devastations Europeans wreaked upon the indigenous people of the “New World,” disease left perhaps the worst impact...But ...
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Precision and personalized medicine will fail if lack of racial diversity in genetic studies persists

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
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

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
[H]orns are dangerous, to both farmers and other cows. And so, for safety, millions of calves are de-horned each year, using a ...
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Impossible Food’s plant-based beefy hamburgers edge closer to market

Rowan Jacobsen | Pacific Standard | 
[T]he more attention consumers paid to the realities of feedlot farming, the more they wanted out. But organic, grass-fed, and ...

Why has agricultural reform dropped off the Democratic agenda?

James McWilliams | Pacific Standard | 
Why did the issue of agricultural reform slide off the national stage . . .? The ultimate answer . ...

Slavery, discrimination profoundly impacted DNA of African-Americans

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Understanding the connection between ...

Genetic modification of salmon ‘nothing to fear’

Matt Whittaker | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The public tends to ...

Is the human gene pool in danger?

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should we worry about ...
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Anti-GMO sentiment softening?

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The well-publicized push to ...

Electronic health records expanding research in medicine, human evolution

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, scientists published yet ...
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Will the Zika crisis, genetically engineered mosquitos change minds about GMOs?

Francie Diep | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's official: The World ...
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‘Anti-science’ skepticism: Why we need to retire term

James McWilliams | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To understand this “anti-science” ...

How much of a mutant are you?

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Though we should certainly ...
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Chipotle cautious with GMOs but appears cavalier about food safety measures

James McWilliams | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Following its most recent E. coli outbreak, Chipotle ...
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Genetically modified microbes can be made into tiny drug factories

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
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

Michael White | Pacific Standard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Unless we increase the ...
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Diet must change to put end to factory farming

James McWilliams | Pacific Standard | 
From the look of things, you’d be correct in thinking that a revolution in food production was underway. Calls for ...

Why ‘GMO-free’ and ‘antibiotic-free’ are worlds apart

Francie Diep | Pacific Standard | 
Poultry giant Foster Farms announced it would cut back on the antibiotics it feeds to its chickens. This follows similar promises from Tyson ...
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What’s behind knee jerk concerns about glyphosate, GMOs?

James McWilliams | Pacific Standard | 
The world’s most commonly sprayed herbicide—glyphosate—is currently trapped in a familiar media cycle. The cycle goes something like this: 1) ...
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