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Are dogs the earliest examples of GMOs? While the conventional definition of a genetically modified organism is the lab insertion of a single gene rather than through traditional selective breeding, new research suggests that the dog was the first living human invention, a series of genetic modifications of the gray wolf.
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Kaua'i appears headed for an ugly legal battle as political maneuvering by anti-GMO forces led to the selection of a hand-picked candidate, who voted to overturn the mayor's veto of a controversial bill designed to fatally wound crop biotechnology on the island.
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Even genetically similar individuals play host to vastly different communities of gut bacteria, a study says--a reminder of how little we know about genetics and the microbiome.
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Researchers have found that gastric bypass surgery, which can assist in weight loss, may also lengthen telomeres and, as a result, slow genetic aging.
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The open-access genome project in the UK, led by Genomics England, has a lot in common with the Personal Genome Project, and a lot of its own challenges.
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Seemingly independent scientists in Hawaii who support GMOs may have undisclosed ties to agriculture companies.
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The world needs a new global food narrative that focuses less on technologies like genetic modification and more on how the world uses that food.
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University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta challenges, in a public forum, the claims by anti-GMO scientist Don Huber that glyphosate-tolerant crops are a health time bomb. This doesn't turn out well for Huber.
Biologists at Michigan State University have frozen 50,000 generations of E. coli over the past 25 years to demonstrate Darwin’s theory of evolution in action.
Tumor genomics is allowing researchers to customize drug trials.
Government bureaucracy gets in the way of what could be a successful voluntary labeling movement led by agriculture companies.
Agriculture companies have developed a soybean that produces oils low in unhealthy transfats, but will restaurants and food manufacturers accept them?
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