"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few…
Layla Katiraee
Layla Katiraee is a human molecular geneticist working as a development scientist in DNA sequencing. She has a PhD in human molecular genetics from the University of Toronto, and is currently studying applied bioinformatics at Penn State.
Gene Editing and GMOs
Gene editing has been getting a lot of attention lately, with an increasing number of articles about this method in the media. In this post, I'll provide a very high level overview of the method (please note that many molecules…
Review of “Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood”
The 2013 PLoS One article Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood is often used as evidence that genes from GMO can “transfer” into our bodies (such as in this article from Collective Evolution). In this post, I’d…
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Genetically Modified Dengue Fighters
When I was 6 years old, my family moved to Venezuela. I graduated from high-school and then chose to move back to Canada to go to college while my family stayed behind. It's only in the past 2-4 years that…
E.coli’s use in GMOs: can you get E.coli poisoning?
For my first post on Biofortified, I'd like to share an account of an exchange that started on Twitter. It all began when I stumbled upon a doozy of a story, about how you can get E. coli poisoning from GMOs.…
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