GMO’s, or genetically modified organisms, are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods. We have a fascination with these organisms, and many times the connotation is very negative. In fact, the google searches for GMO have skyrocketed to 600,000 a month, according to a 2018 study done by the non-GMO project.  However, this fascination is mostly recent, despite the fact that humans have been genetically modifying organisms for over 30,000 years. The real question that we all want answered is, are GMOs really a good thing? If they are, is this true all of the time? Can they cause harm to humans? Or are they just misunderstood? In today’s episode we will be exploring all of this and more as we dive into genetically modified organisms.