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How Your Genes Can Make You Happier
Our DNA is dynamic and involved. Learn how you affect your genes with your thoughts, words, and actions.
How Your Genes Affect Your Reaction to Drugs
BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene Mutations: I Have a Mutation, What Are My Options?
A genetic counselor discusses decision-making for people who carry BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations
Why Do Some GM Crops Contain the Epicyte Gene?
While there are many harmless gm crops that have been around for centuries, others have the potential to cause irreversible sterility. ... Read on to learn more.
How Gene Editing is Reshaping Agriculture
Though it hasn’t garnered the attention this revolution merits, a new technology is reshaping the oldest human enterprise: agriculture. With gene editing comes a new model of how crops are improved and produced, who produces the plants, and how they will be introduced to farmers and importantly how plant breeding can quickly respond to change …
How Gene Editing Will Change Agriculture
Made-to-order crops and livestock are coming to farms soon, as gene editing speeds up the discovery of improved traits.
What is gene editing and why should you care?
Animal and plant breeders are trying out a set of powerful new tools which have the potential to revolutionize agricultural practices and provide consumers with more healthy and safe food options.
How Gene-Edited Sugarcane Could Reduce Society’s Environmental Footprint
Australia’s University of Queensland is currently conducting research on how gene editing could tailor sugarcane to efficiently produce bioplastics and biofuels. From soda bottles to ethanol, resea…
Why You Should Probably Talk to Your Great Aunt About the BRCA Gene
"What do you know about BRCA?" my mother asked. I was home from college for winter break, and we were making dinner. My mother is a lawyer, and not very ...
Can Gene Silencing Save the Honeybee?
Monsanto and others look to RNA interference to fight widespread bee-killing mites.
Gene editing: Better crops, fewer regulations?
“Using this science, farmers can continue to meet consumer expectations for healthful, affordable food, produced in a manner that consumes fewer natural resources."—Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue
Seed Giants See Fresh Start in Gene Editing
The agriculture industry is betting that new technology for editing the genes of plants will yield enhanced crops—and potentially reset a long-running debate over genetically engineered seeds.
Can This Gene-Edited Wild Plant Become the Next Strawberry?
Move over, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry: There’s a new fruit in town, and it’s genetically modified. Researchers figured out how to take the little-known groundcherry (a species of the Physalis flowering plant) …
How Do You Practice Mindfulness? Check In Withy Yourself
Jodie Shares her mindfulness practices. " for me, mindfulness in my day-to-day life is really about making sure that I try to stay present in every moment…
Is This Tomato Engineered? Inside the Coming Battle Over Gene-Edited Food
Scientists and agriculture-industry executives say using Crispr technology in plants could transform agriculture and help feed a growing global population. Organic farmers and natural-food companies say it may pose risks to human health and permanently alter the environment.
Beyond genes: Protein atlas scores nitrogen fixing duet
Of the many elusive grails of agricultural biotechnology, the ability to confer nitrogen fixation into non-leguminous plants such as cereals ranks near the very top, say researchers.
US Military's Bug Gene-Altering Program: Boon or Bioweapon?
A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological...
Still Confused About CRISPR and Gene Editing? Watch This Explainer.
Don’t know a genetically modified organism from modified corn starch? Still not sure if this CRISPR thing is for storing vegetables or for altering the ...
Women with gene mutation face decision about preventive mastectomy
Genetic testing can help women make a decision about having a preventive mastectomy.
Plants have unique lock to control expression of genes, study finds
Purdue University scientists have discovered evidence that the repressive structures that plants use to keep genes turned off is built with a potential self-destruct switch. The findings offer insight into ways to control gene expression to alter plants’ characteristics.
