GLP Weekly Top 6: After ‘Brexit election’, UK poised to exit ‘outdated’ EU GMO, CRISPR regs; Retinitis pigmentosa cure breakthrough?; and more!

Weekly Top 6 Articles

Viewpoint: With Conservative sweep of the ‘Brexit election’, Boris Johnson poised to steer the UK out of ‘outdated’ EU GMO, CRISPR regulations

Retinitis pigmentosa cure breakthrough? Next generation of artificial lenses being developed with flexible silicon-like chips to combat genetic blindness

‘Natural health’ and conspiracy sites exploit social media to fester opposition to GMO crops. Here’s a study about what can be done to stop it

Does the ‘genetics revolution’ unsettle you? Here is a guide, and reasons to be hopeful

Billion-year-old microbes could give us new food, fuel sources—if we can figure out how to use them

Should parents be allowed to choose a child’s sexual orientation through gene editing?