What’s the timeline for gene edited babies? 25 years, says CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna

What’s the timeline for gene edited babies? 25 years, says CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna

Angelica Peebles | Seattle Times | 
It’s been 10 years since Crispr gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna published the landmark paper that landed a Nobel Prize for ...
Viewpoint: How Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen undermines healthy food consumption

Viewpoint: How Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen undermines healthy food consumption

Carrie Dennett | Seattle Times | 
To be able to “vote with your fork” is a privilege that not everyone has, and the “Dirty Dozen” list ...
‘Clinically proven’ memory-boosting supplements like Prevagen don’t work. So how do they escape FDA crackdown?

‘Clinically proven’ memory-boosting supplements like Prevagen don’t work. So how do they escape FDA crackdown?

Carrie Dennett | Seattle Times | 
Some popular supplements advertised on TV claim to be “clinically” proven, but in fact are not. Notably, the maker of ...
Viewpoint: Pesticide residues on food could be 100,000 times higher—and still wouldn't harm your health

Viewpoint: Pesticide residues on food could be 100,000 times higher—and still wouldn’t harm your health

Carrie Dennett | Seattle Times | 
The idea that “nonorganic” produce, typically referred to as “conventional” produce, is unsafe to eat is pervasive, and it largely ...
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Depression and pharmacogenomics: Avoiding ‘trial and error’ in drug treatments

Steve Dorfman | Seattle Times | 
Thanks to the relatively new field of pharmacogenomics — which the National Human Genome Research Institute defines as the use ...

After repeated health code violations, Seattle Chipotle restaurant closed

JoNel Aleccia | Seattle Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Seattle health officials closed ...
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Washington, Oregon investigating massive food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle

Coral Garnick, JoNel Aleccia | Seattle Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. All Chipotle restaurants in ...

Seattle Times: USDA’s GMO verification smarter than mandatory labeling

Seattle Times | 
Many consumers want to know whether their food contains genetically modified ingredients, and some businesses are responding with the help of ...

Danger of unapproved stem cell therapies growing as clinics expand across US

Matthew Perrone | Seattle Times | 
More than 170 clinics across the country are selling experimental stem cell procedures for dozens of diseases and conditions — ...

DNA evidence ends ancestry debate over 9500 year old skeleton

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
Nearly two decades after the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man was discovered on the banks of the Columbia River, the ...

San Juan Islands’ 2012 ban on GMOs: Incubator for debate

Brian Cantwell | Seattle Times | 
In 2012, a humble farmer in the off-the-beaten-track archipelago of the San Juan Islands fired a shot in the form of ...
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Critics of Bill Gates’ ‘industrial ag’ efforts in Africa take their case to Seattle

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
In Kenya, where he works with small farmers, Daniel Maingi “failed miserably” in his attempts to connect with agricultural organizations ...
Rose scented trees? Genetic modification could create safe chemical factories

Rose scented trees? Genetic modification could create safe chemical factories

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
A Washington State University project aims to turn poplars into factories for premium chemicals like 2-phenylethanol, which is what gives ...

GM food-labeling fight may be shifting to legislatures

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
The battle to label genetically engineered foods won’t be stalled by the defeat of Washington Initiative 522, but the arena ...

University of Washington professor speaks out in support of I-522

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
The Seattle Times sat down with Phil Bereano, a professor emeritus of technical communication and co-founder of AGRA-Watch, a group ...

Genes jump between conventional crops, not just from engineered ones

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
Another ecological worry about GE crops seemed to have come true with a vengeance in 2000. American scientists reported that ...

Science panel says GMO labeling would cost — but how much remains unknown

Sandi Doughton | Seattle Times | 
Labeling genetically engineered foods would come at a cost, but it’s impossible to say how high it will be, says ...

In GMO ads, both sides make mostly false claims about I-522 costs

Lewis Kamb | Seattle Times | 
Dueling TV ads now airing about Initiative 522 — the statewide ballot measure to require labeling of some genetically engineered ...
Washington State: Near-record funds are fueling GMO labeling campaign

Washington State: Near-record funds are fueling GMO labeling campaign

Lewis Kamb | Seattle Times | 
Both sides of the GMO labeling campaign in Washington State have seen near-record donations from businesses and individual donors ...

Labeling GM foods in Washington: “Science doesn’t support I-522”

Robert Wood | Seattle Times | 
Initiative 522 on Washington’s November general election ballot — to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods — should be ...

On voters’ plates: genetically engineered crops

Melissa Allison | Seattle Times | 
Get ready for a food fight. When Washington voters decide Initiative 522 this fall, they will do more than determine whether to ...

Details of Washington State’s GM food labeling bill released

Melissa Allison | Seattle Times | 
If Washington State's Initiative 522 passes, raw agricultural products that are genetically engineered, and processed foods with such ingredients, will have to ...

Wheat industry will survive Oregon’s GE strain

Glen Squires | Seattle Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. After news broke that a genetically engineered strain of wheat had been found in ...

New film about the geneticist who discovered BRCA1

Moira Macdonald | Seattle Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. When Dr. Mary-Claire King, a geneticist at the University of Washington, learned Helen Hunt ...

Washington: One grocer already labeling GMO products

Melissa Allison | Seattle Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. Before Stephen Trinkaus slapped “GMO Alert!” labels on dozens of products in his Bellingham ...

Initiative 522: A test of what you believe about genetically modified foods

Bruce Ramsey | Seattle Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. [The GMO] label is a warning. It is saying, in effect, “Before you buy ...

Initiative 522 perpetuates faulty myths about GMO food

Thanh Tan | Seattle Times | 
The following is an excerpt. I eat organic or all-natural food as much as possible. I read labels. I buy ...

Be skeptical of Washington’s Initiative 522 on GMO labeling

Seattle Times | 
The following is an edited excerpt. Consumers absolutely have a right to know what they are eating is safe, but ...
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