Gene-ius Bright Ideas in Human Genetics
 Precision medicine inches along
More than a decade ago, we sequenced the human genome with hope that disease cures might soon follow. Finding treatment targets has proved harder to come by but hopes are still high.
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GeneTrends Food & Agriculture
 Farmers abandoning organic farming despite lure of higher price premiums
Organic food sales are booming and some studies claim it's more profitable for farmers because of cprice premiums. But costs and rigid regulations raise doubts about claims, as farmers switch to conventional.
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 Do you think you have NCGS–gluten sensitivity? Proceed with caution in age of mail order genetic tests
 Global scientists assess homeopathy-funded Séralini study claiming all GMO tests ‘contaminated’
 Chimera alert? Myths and facts of human-non-human animal hybrids in medicine
 Teen boy checklist: Graduate high school, freeze sperm, go to college
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 Why Whole Foods and Chipotle’s anti-GMO campaigning has lost my business
 American attitudes toward GMO foods divides by education and gender, not politics nor religion
 UK GM wheat trial highlights costs of violent activism
 Can a skeptical public be persuaded to embrace GMO foods? Yes, if we want sustainable agriculture
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