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Podcast: Ban ‘factory farming’? GMO mosquitoes coming this summer; anti-biotech groups aren’t ‘grassroots’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...
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Viewpoint: The real ‘dirty dozen’? 12 organic foods that could make you sick in 2020

It is that time of year again. The Environmental Working Group put out their annual list of food it considers ...
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Abbott expects to ship 90 million coronavirus antibody tests over next two months after FDA grants emergency approval

Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | 
The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories’ new coronavirus test that detects Covid-19 antibodies.... Abbott ...
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USDA, FDA should streamline ‘fragmented’ lab-grown meat regulation, Government Accountability Office finds

General information about the process of making cell-cultured meat—food products grown from the cells of livestock, poultry, and seafood—is available ...
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US government launches GMO website, may allow GM crops in some wildlife refuges

Greg Jaffe | 
While much of the United States government’s recent activity has focused on COVID-19, some agencies are continuing their work in ...
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Emergency FDA authorization of remdesivir expected after experimental coronavirus drug shows promise in trial

The F.D.A. plans to announce ... an emergency use authorization for remdesivir, an experimental antiviral drug that is being tested ...
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‘A cleaner kill’: Harnessing the body’s immune system to battle cancer

Sam Moxon | 
What if your immune system could kill cancers in the same way it does colds and flu? This concept may ...
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Can we trust coronavirus antibody tests never reviewed by the FDA?

Laurie McGinley | 
The Food and Drug Administration, criticized for slowness in authorizing tests to detect coronavirus infections, has taken a strikingly different ...
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Will CRISPR spawn a new wave of crop biotech innovation despite regulatory hurdles?

Nina Fedoroff | 
The fact that gene-edited crops can be indistinguishable at the molecular level from those that occur in nature or are ...
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FDA has ‘no objections’ to lab-made dairy proteins produced with GMO microbes

Elaine Watson | 
Perfect Day, a startup producing milk proteins via microbial fermentation (minus the cows), has secured a coveted ‘no questions/objections’ letter ...
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Viewpoint: Excessive animal biotech rules hinder our efforts to battle coronavirus

Dana O’Brien | 
To help the U.S. better prepare for the future, we need changes to the U.S. animal biotechnology regulatory system. The ...
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FDA halts food manufacturing facility inspections to slow coronavirus spread

Jenny Zhang | 
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to “flatten the curve,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is halting ...
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Viewpoint: Watch out for ‘charlatans and scammers’ touting coronavirus cures

Steven Salzberg | 
The coronavirus pandemic has the whole world's attention. For now, there's no treatment and definitely no cure for COVID-19, the ...
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If the FDA doesn’t say they’re safe, ‘they won’t go to market’: What you should know about GMOs and food safety

Amanda Capritto | 
Glow-in-the-dark mice, silk-producing goats, venomous cabbage — these are all wacky and downright unsettling examples of what can happen when scientists tinker with ...
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Biotech experts, farmers call for updated US gene-edited crop, animal rules at Senate Agriculture Committee hearing

Jacqui Fatka | 
In opening comments during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on [March 12], ranking member Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) said ...
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FDA Feed Your Mind project offers ‘science-based’ answers to questions about GMO safety, regulation

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new education initiative called “Feed Your Mind” to help consumers better ...
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Viewpoint: 4 ways the FDA must evolve to deal with fast-moving technologies and health threats

Ellen Sigal, Mark McClellan | 
As we look toward the FDA of the 2020s that can achieve further progress in addressing urgent health threats and ...
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Impossible Foods touts eco-benefits of its GMO plant-based burger to win over skeptical consumers

Dan Gluck | 
Impossible Foods has claimed a spot on the menus of fast-food chains like Restaurant Brands International’s Burger King and White ...
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Viewpoint: President Trump should end FDA-USDA turf war over animal gene-editing regulation to foster innovation

Dana O’Brien | 
In more than two decades, only one biotechnology food animal has been approved for production and sale in the United ...
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900 gene therapy drugs are in the pipeline. How does the FDA want to regulate them?

To date, the FDA has approved four gene therapy products, which insert new genetic material into a patient’s cells. The ...
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FDA defends CRISPR-edited animal rules likely to block most uses: Is the agency trying to avoid litigation from anti-GMO groups?

Cameron English | 
"How can the presence of one identifiable variant justify the costs and delays of mandatory FDA oversight?" ...
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Hand sanitizers can’t ‘work miracles’: Purell warned by FDA to cut back on marketing claims

Kim Bellware | 
The makers of Purell are pruning their marketing strategy after the Food and Drug Administration slapped the company with a ...
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US Senate coalition petitions FDA to end marketing of plant-based ‘imposter products’ as dairy

Sylvan Lane | 
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end the labeling of plant-based ...
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Turning old drugs—for things like diabetes and alcoholism—into new cancer treatments

Jim Daley | 
Drugs originally developed to treat diseases ranging from diabetes to alcoholism may have applications in cancer treatment, according to a ...
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A video game for ADHD? We’re still waiting to see what the FDA thinks

Rebecca Robbins | 
In mid-2018, the startup Akili Interactive Labs asked the Food and Drug Administration to let it do something that’s never ...
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