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Human
Tabitha M. Powledge | Genetic Literacy Project
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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Agriculture
Jon Entine | Forbes
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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Brian Palmer | Slate
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.
Shirley Wang | Wall Street Journal
Researchers have found that gastric bypass surgery, which can assist in weight loss, may also lengthen telomeres and, as a result, slow genetic aging.
Ewen Callaway | Nature
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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Jonathon Foley | Ensia
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.
Kevin Folta | Illumination
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.
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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.
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Tumor genomics is allowing researchers to customize drug trials.
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Government bureaucracy gets in the way of what could be a successful voluntary labeling movement led by agriculture companies.
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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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