Genes 101: Basics

Environment & Agriculture

Innovative Technology

Genomics in Society

Entertainment Genomics

Environment & Agriculture

Examining issues involving genomics and our living earth

Can Microbes Help with Climate Change?
Microbes may help us clean up our environmental messes
GM Crops and Gene Flow
Plants can transfer genes following similar lines as human inheritance
Terminator Technology
Producing seeds that can not reproduce
The Frozen Ark
Saving tissues from endangered species in hope of better future

Do you know...

Genetically modified plants can be engineered to produce sterile seeds to help prevent GM plants mixing with wild species - and to protect commerical interests.

Microbes may have been the very first victims of self-generated climate change.

The world is changing faster than plants and animals can adapt and we are currently in the midst of a mass extinction.

Genetically modified plants have yielded herbicide-resistant plants, toxin-producing plants, plants with more nutritional value, and plants containing human vaccines.

Genes contributing to diabetes and weight gain may be evolutionary relics that helped our hunter-gatherer ancestors survive famine.