NOTE: Genetic modification or engineering is considered to be the overarching term, and gene editing is a subset.
Other GM crops grown commercially include: potato (USA), squash/pumpkin (USA) alfalfa (USA), eggplants (Bangladesh), sugar beet (USA, Canada), papaya (USA and China), oilseed rape (4 countries), maize (corn) (17 countries), soya beans (11 countries) and cotton (15 countries).
Genetically modified foods (Food Standards Australia, 2023)
CSIRO roadmap charts Australia's food and nutrition security by 2050 (CSIRO, 2023)
The state of global food security (World Economic Forum, 2022)
Genetically modified crops may be a solution to hunger - why there is scepticism in Africa (The Conversation, 2023)
Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. - Recent trends (US Department of Agriculture, 2023)
Types of Non-Coding DNA
UK - NHS: National Genomics Education Program - Non-coding DNA
Journal article: Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study
UCLA: Mutations in noncoding DNA become functional in some cancer-driving genes
Medical News Today: Are Humans Still Evolving?
Science Advances: Human generation times across the past 250,000 years
Scientific American: Still evolving, after all these years
Smithsonian: Human Evolution Research
Smithsonian: Human Evolution Evidence
Cell reports: De novo birth of functional microproteins in the human lineage
Taller, Fatter, Older: How Humans Have Changed in 100 Years
The Conversation: DNA dating: How molecular clocks are refining human evolution’s timeline
The Conversation: Human evolution is still happening – possibly faster than ever
The Conversation: Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years?
CRISPR (short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) is a technology that research scientists use to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms. CRISPR was adapted for use in the laboratory from naturally occurring genome editing systems found in bacteria.
National Human Genome Research Institute
New Scientist: What is CRISPR?
Innovative Genomics Institute: CRISPR & Health
Labiotech: Seven diseases CRISPR technology could cure
Frontiers: The Potential of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing as a Treatment Strategy for Inherited Diseases
Nature: CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects
World Health Organisation: Human genome editing: a framework for governance
Yale School of Medicine: Twins
Parents: What Are Monozygotic Twins?
The Conversation: Why Twins Are So Important for Health and Medical Research
Genetic Science Learning Centre: Insights from Identical Twins
Science News: Identical twins share DNA tags
The Atlantic: Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression
Nature: Identical twins carry a persistent epigenetic signature of early genome programming
The Conversation: IVF has little effect on health of the child
Epigenomics: Harnessing the Power of Twins in Epigenetic Association Studies: Causal Inference
Genome Medicine: Epigenetics of discordant monozygotic twins: implications for disease
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Google Scholar's searches are set to cover scholarly material more often than 'regular' Google. Google Scholar's searches are set to cover scholarly material more often than 'regular' Google. Read the article below on the advantages an disadvantages of using it.
TIP: To get PDFs only, type in 'filetype:pdf'. It's great!
Google Books can be very frustrating because often much of the book is missing and you are expected to purchase it to read the full content. So after you put in your search term you are interested in (eg biodiesel), and get some results up, you should then go immediately to the search box (on the left - above 'About this box') and type in a particular word or term you are interested in (eg CO2 emissions OR methanol) you should get a number of pages pop up. Choose one that looks useful - you should get some good results this way!