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Video: Scientists take on Uganda’s tough questions about GMO crops
Uganda’s NTV features panel discussion on biotechnology and biosafety with Dr. Nina Fedoroff of Penn State University and Dr. Theresa Sengooba ...
Why hyping ‘click-worthy’ autism research can do more harm than good
Click-worthy health and science headlines are an essential currency in today’s media world. When they pertain to autism, they might ...
Absolut failure: Kansas farm family takes stand against fear-based non-GMO vodka marketing
I don’t throw the word hero around very often, but in this case the cape fits. Out on the vast ...
Why this farmer and mother changed her mind about the dangers of GMOs
As a 4-H kid with Hollywood dreams, my younger self would be SHOCKED to see me now, back on a ...
Teen farmer challenges myths about GMOs, ‘factory farming’
Growing up on a production agriculture farm .... I help to produce the food that we enjoy on a daily ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the hypocrisy of GMO critic Carey Gillam
Carey Gillam is a former journalist for Reuters, and is currently the research director for US Right to Know (US ...
Podcast: South Australian farmers want access to GMO crops as moratorium debate rages
ABC reports on debate over South Australia’s GMO moratorium. Flinders MP Peter Treloar states that he has not seen any ...
Are more consumers willing to pay a premium for ‘natural, ethical, enhanced’ foods?
People haven’t always thought very hard about their food. For most of human history, simply getting enough to eat was ...
Ugandan researchers hit the road to battle anti-GMO propaganda
As Uganda continues to grapple with its biotech future, scientists have launched an initiative to help local farmers better understand ...
Global hunger and how agricultural biotechnology firms can profit by giving away technology
New research from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln shows that agricultural biotechnology companies can do well by doing good. Agricultural economists ...
Video: Why many food companies won’t pick a side in the GMO debate
In this video, Know Ideas Media founder Nick Saik explains why farmers and agriculture companies have to get involved in ...
Viewpoint: Why we have to fight for what biotechnology can offer us
“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” That’s how fictional star ship captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek orders his tea, 300 years ...
How Frankenstein and 200 years of horror stories have haunted the biotechnology revolution
It was a dark and stormy night in 1818, when something sinister was loosed upon the world. Okay, so it ...
Viewpoint: Biotech industry must invest more in public outreach, or risk losing GMO debate to activists
Agri-food is a $110 billion industry in Canada. Canola, just canola, supports 250,000 jobs and has a $26 billion impact ...
Environmental Working Group or the EPA: Who should parents trust about glyphosate safety?
Remember a couple months back when an advocacy group found what it called “a hefty dose” of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weedkillers such ...
Scientists can save one of Uganda’s staple crops with genetic engineering—if lawmakers will let them
Ugandan scientists are accelerating their outreach to lawmakers to make them aware of improved crops like disease-resistant cassava .... Cassava, ...
Teenagers view scientific innovation as key to sustainable farming, UK survey shows
Four out of ten teenagers feel that their generation should be much more interested in where their food comes from, ...
Viewpoint: Experts need to engage, educate the public on benefits of animal gene editing
Gene editing shows considerable potential for improving animal health and welfare and food safety while reducing dependence on antimicrobials and ...
Cartoons offer ‘simple’ whimsical look at cancer immunotherapy through the eyes of scientists
Four years ago, I was hired for a new and terrific job: to help my colleagues at Solebury Trout and ...
Science-based regulations in US weaken influence of anti-GMO groups, study suggests
We applied institutional theory to examine the effect of differences in institutional pressures on strategic decisions of .... Greenpeace, in ...
How one plant scientist challenges the ‘natural is better’ myth
Paul Vincelli spends a good deal of his time talking to the public about genetic engineering so it’s not surprising ...
Challenging the idea that the world’s farmers have been bought by ‘Big Ag’
Accusations that if you say anything good about biotechnology, then you must be getting paid by the multi-nationals, frustrates Canadian ...
Fast food burgers tainted by antibiotics? Not so fast
So, [October 18], millions of Americans woke up to the latest alarmist headline—that burger chains are using meat contaminated with ...
High profile dispute over GMO safety shines spotlight on China’s biotech handwringing
A dispute between two state-run newspapers over an interview has highlighted China’s unabated fear of genetically modified food. Science and ...
Anti-GMO consumers more likely to oppose nanotechnology as well, study finds
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that an individual's perception of genetically modified organisms might impact their judgments ...
Boosting crop yields by using genetic engineering to help plants discard natural toxins
Can you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France going hungry? ...
Debunking marijuana myths: Monsanto has not created ‘GMO super weed’
Despite what some chronic users may claim, the cannabis plant is not mystical. Like any living species, its cells house ...
