Ben Locwin | Genetic Literacy Project
Being around the large number of germs in daycare may actually improve your child's immune system. And we are now learning there may be in more profound health benefits.
Meredith Knight | Genetic Literacy Project
Lifestyle changes have profound effects on human health, more so than most blockbuster drugs. But despite their potency, supplements, exercise and stress reduction aren�t going to repair your genes.
Arvind Suresh | Genetic Literacy Project
Researchers report creating genetically engineered yeast strains that take us one step closer to producing opiates using microbes. How did the media and scientists react to the story?
Jon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project
Sports, running in particular, provides a global laboratory for scientists hoping to understand what shapes human performance. Sports ability is not equally distributed among population groups--races using the popular lexicon--and it's not racist to acknowledge or study that.
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Jon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project
A central canon of GMO critics is the belief that transgenics--transferring genes from one species to another--represents a 'crime against Nature'. Now we know that Nature has been committing these "crimes" for eons.
Iida Ruishalme | Genetic Literacy Project
Swedish writer trained in biology had embraced organic food and farming for years as a safer and healthier alternative to conventional food and especially as a way to avoid GMOs--what she now sees as the power of group illusions.
It's MomSense | Genetic Literacy Project
'I used to work for Monsanto. I got to help people better understand a technology that I think holds immense promise to change our world for the better. But I rarely talk about it because of threats of violence.'
Kavin Senapathy | Science Power Hour
Science Power Hour host Vern Blazek interviews Kavin Senapathy, co-founder of March Against Myths About Modification. Known as MAMyths, the organization opposes misinformation from March Against Monsanto, a grassroots movement that began with anti-GMO sentiment, but has since entered conspiracy theory territory.
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