Genetics

Life is Sweet

Michele Bachmann stars in anti-socialism movie from church that blames Darwin for Holocaust

It's the end of the world as she knows it​In her never-ending quest to push the Obama-is-a-socialist meme forward, Michele Bachmann is featured in a new documentary horror movie produced by James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. The video promo for "Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger" sa ... More >>

Bonnie Blodgett

It's the end of the world as she knows it​In her never-ending quest to push the Obama-is-a-socialist meme forward, Michele Bachmann is featured in a new documentary horror movie produced by James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. The video promo for "Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger" sa ... More >>

Nitzer Ebb

It's the end of the world as she knows it​In her never-ending quest to push the Obama-is-a-socialist meme forward, Michele Bachmann is featured in a new documentary horror movie produced by James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. The video promo for "Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger" sa ... More >>

NYT: "Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?"

Are you for or against genetically-modified foods? Read this NYT article and see if you still feel the same way.

Sister Stories

Are you for or against genetically-modified foods? Read this NYT article and see if you still feel the same way.

National Geographic discusses the global food crisis

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Eduardo Kac: Natural History of the Enigma

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Form + Content X2

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Jamie Kaler

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Michael Medved: American DNA is best ... except for those pesky slaves and their bad genes

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Lynn Fellman: DNA Portraits

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Tegan and Sara

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

7/23 Morning Communiqué

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

5/24 Morning Communiqué

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

4/13 Morning Communiqué

Did you know we've been eating more than we've been producing for almost a decade? We didn't.

Put Down What You're Eating

A new movie looks at our unhealthy appetite for Frankenfoods

Venus In Blue Genes

If God didn't create a glowing dog, why can't art?

Live Nude Girls

Florence Hill and the art of figure drawing

Brave Moo World

The Minnesota Zoo showcases a designer dairy

A Rice by Any Other Name

The University of Minnesota's genetic research on wild rice goes against the grain

Agribusiness as Usual?

At the University of Minnesota's farm school, discord blooms over budget cuts and the biotech bonanza

Seeds of Dissent

Is the debate over genetically modified crops being nipped in the bud at the state capitol?

The Gene Sifters

Never mind fingerprints--state law-enforcement officials want blood

Tigers' Keepers

A real-life fairy tale in which the wild beasts are hunted, the jungle is a plantation, and the knight in shining armor hails from Apple Valley.

Fiction is Stranger than Fiction

Two historical figures, filmmaker F.W. Murnau and geneticist Gregor Mendel, step out of the past into two new novels

D-N-GAY?

Steven Epstein separates the biology from the bias in Timothy F. Murphy's Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research

Genes Will Tell

Steven Epstein separates the biology from the bias in Timothy F. Murphy's Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research

Soy Genes

Steven Epstein separates the biology from the bias in Timothy F. Murphy's Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research

The Vanishing Pool

On two farms in Iowa, preservationists are fighting a battle against the disappearance of countless plant and animal breeds. If they lose, the costs to the planet could be incalculable.

GENES, DESTINY, AND BIG BROTHER

UM Professor David Lykken has spent his career studying the role of nature and nurture in shaping people. And he believes his research shows the best society would be one in which the state decides who gets to have children.
by Jennifer Vogel