TED Talks
TED: The case for engineering our food | Pamela Ronald
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she...
Food Farmer Earth
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings - Reimagining a Sustainable Food System
From the archives: journalist, environmentalist and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world. Cummings argues for a radical new approach to...
Curated Video
Debate: Are Genetically Modified Animals Safe to Eat?
A team of scientists has genetically engineered pigs to be resistant to a widespread disease. Science can engineer an animal’s DNA to introduce desirable traits and get rid of negative traits or sickness. These pigs are not being raised...
The Wall Street Journal
Food By Design
Pairwise CEO Tom Adams and Inari CEO Ponsi Trivisvavet discuss how genetic engineering could help solve some of the world’s biggest food-related problems, and how agricultural technology companies plan to scale and overcome consumer...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
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World Science Festival
CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering
It’s happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 have been born to a woman in China. Their altered genes will be passed to their children, and their children’s children. Join...
Curated Video
What are GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
GMO or genetically modified organisms are organisms with their DNA modified, usually by adding new or different DNA from another organism. GM crops are crops that have genes from bacteria. These genes allow the plants to either produce...
Food Farmer Earth
GMOs - An Invention In Search Of A Necessity
It has been said, we have taken culture out of agriculture and replaced it with agribusiness. The larger point is that our industrial food system is harming our bodies and polluting our air, waterways and land. Claire Hope Cummings,...
Food Farmer Earth
A Closer Look at GMOs with Alan Kapuler
Molecular biologist and organic, plant breeder, Alan Kapuler shares his personal views on genetic engineering and a closer look at GMOs.
Curated Video
Selective Breeding
Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection. It is the process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics. We have been doing this for thousands of years - ever since we first bred food...
Curated Video
GM Crops
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to...
Food Farmer Earth
Can Organic Agriculture Feed The World - Fred Kirs
One of the bedrock tenets for supporters of our industrial agriculture system — monocrop farming, large scale livestock production, reliance upon chemical fertilizers, genetic engineering and pesticides, etc.— how else are we to feed the...
Food Farmer Earth
Coming Up With the Right Way Forward In Uncertain Times
In this final 4-part series, Claire Hope Cummings shares her honest doubts about the fate of the earth. In referring to her book (Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds), Cummings draws from other indigenous...
Food Farmer Earth
Privatization of Agricultural Research, Agrochemic
Former USDA lawyer under Jimmy Carter, activist and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings shares her views on the state of U.S. agriculture today and how we got here. Be forewarned,...
Curated Video
GM Crops | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool
GM Crops | Genetics | Biology | FuseSchool GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted...
TED Talks
TED: How humans could evolve to survive in space | Lisa Nip
If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using synthetic biology, Lisa Nip hopes to harness special powers from microbes on...
Science360
Even healthy corals have viruses - Science Nation
Corals are important ecosystem engineers, providing habitat and nutrient recycling to tropical reefs. However, coral species' richness and abundance are in decline worldwide, due in large part to the impacts from global industrialization...
SciShow
Why are GMOs Bad?
Why are GMOs bad? They aren’t. They just aren’t, not intrinsically, and certainly not for your health. We’ve been eating them for decades with no ill effects, which makes sense, because a genetically modified organism is simply an...
Curated Video
Should We Be Worried About GMOs? - Glad You Asked S1 (E10)
At the current rate, we'll have to grow as much food in the next 30 years as we have in all of human history. And many experts argue that to do that, we’ll have to engineer the genes of our food. But the concern surrounding whether we...
Curated Video
Selective Breeding | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
Selective Breeding | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool Selective breeding is also known as artificial selection. It is the process by which humans breed plants and animals for particular genetic characteristics. We have been doing this...
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Introduction to Biotechnology
This nugget introduces you to the science of biotechnology. It briefly discusses the principles, techniques and applications of biotechnology.
The Wall Street Journal
Heiða Helgadóttir and Sylvia Wulf on Sustainable Fishing
The world's population is growing and the demand for protein is rising. Heiða Helgadóttir, CEO of Icelandic startup Niceland Seafood, and AquaBounty Technologies CEO Sylvia Wulf discuss sustainable fishing with WSJ's Joanna Chung.
TED Talks
TED: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices | Jun Wang
What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to develop digital doppelgangers for real people; they start with genetic code, but...
TED Talks
TED: The brain science of obesity | Mads Tang-Christensen
Your belly and your brain speak to each other, says obesity researcher Mads Tang-Christensen. Offering scientific proof that obesity is a disease influenced by genetics and the environment, he introduces a molecule discovered in both the...