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Viewpoint: France shows its irrationality in embracing nuclear power but rejecting glyphosate safety

Cecile Philippe | 
[Editor's note: Cécile Philippe is an economist and Director-General of the Molinari Economic Institute.] In France, a glyphosate ban for ...
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Long neglected by breeders, Africa’s staple ‘orphan crops’ undergoing a genetic revolution

Cassava and sweet potatoes. Lablab beans and water berries. Bitter gourds and sickle sennas. Elephant ears and African locusts. ... All ...
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Gene could unlock high yield soybeans with increased protein for animal feed

Adityarup Chakravorty | 
Leftovers can be quite valuable. For instance, when soybean seed is crushed and the oil extracted, what’s left is called ...
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Science Moms hit back at anti-GMO group’s Monsanto ‘shill’ accusations

[Editor's note: Alison Bernstein, Anastasia Bodnar, Jenny Splitter, Kavin Senapathy, Layla Katiraee, and Natalie Newell are part of a group called Science ...
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Post-Brexit UK will continue GMO crop ban, environment secretary says

Christopher Hope | 
Food made from genetically modified crops will continue to be banned in the UK after Britain leaves the European Union, ...
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Vote to approve glyphosate herbicide shakes up German, EU politics

Jill Petzinger | 
European Union countries found themselves at odds on Monday [Nov. 27] over weed killer. After a long deadlock over renewing the ...
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Why life-saving gene therapy isn’t available yet to children who need it most

Emily Mullin | 
[The first patient to permanently edit his DNA,] Brian Madeux, 44, of Arizona, is part of a clinical trial testing ...
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Non-antibiotic sepsis-fighting drug could save millions of lives

Devang Mehta | 
The state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) in southeast India is perhaps not the first place you’d expect to find a ...
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So much data to store: Can DNA solve our problem?

Mar Parlange | 
Many pundits predict it’s just a matter of time till DNA pips magnetic tape as the ultimate way to store ...
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Key to understanding Down syndrome may rest in chromosomes

Some scientists call it the "final frontier" of our DNA—even though it lies at the center of every X-shaped chromosome ...
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GMO Bt cotton poised to revive Philippines’ industry, reduce pesticide use

Marlo Asis | 
Following a multi-year slump, the Philippine cotton industry is anticipating a renaissance through the help of an innovative, science-based crop that farmers ...
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Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Genetic engineering could save farm animals from disease

Alison Van Eenennaam, Gene Johnston | 
Alison Van Eenennaam is one of agriculture’s leading voices of reason and persuasion in support of good science in food ...
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Indian scientist: For some crops, genetic engineering ‘only option’ to improve food security

Rajeev Varshney | 
[Editor's note: Rajeev Varshney is Research Program Director for Genetic Gains, at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-biotech groups’ master plan substitutes ‘citizen science’ for data in quest to get glyphosate banned

David Zaruk | 
The European Union resisted the lobbying of organic and anti-biotech groups to renew authorization of glyphosate, although only for five ...
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French President Macron advocates glyphosate herbicide ban within 3 years

Danny Hakim | 
The European Union voted on Monday [Nov. 27] to extend its authorization for the world’s best-selling herbicide for an abbreviated ...
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Non-glyphosate certified: New label promises lower levels of herbicide residue

Cathy Siegner | 
Scott Prentice, executive director of BioChecked, has been in the food certification business since 2010. However, he's made the most ...
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Video: Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on ‘troubling trend’ of misleading food labels

Tom Vilsack | 
There’s been a lot of talk about the mandatory GMO disclosure law passed by the US Congress in 2016. The ...
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Nano-mapping DNA mutations with CRISPR could transform disease treatment

A team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., have developed new nanomapping technology that could ...
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Dolly the sheep revisited: Early health fears about clones ‘greatly exaggerated’

Sarah Zhang | 
[L]ast year, Kevin Sinclair, a developmental biologist at the University of Nottingham, published a paper about several clones including Dolly’s four “sisters,” who ...
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Spy plants? DARPA working on genetically engineered surveillance sensors

Dom Galeon | 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the think-tank that’s under the U.S. Department of Defense, recently announced that it’s ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO movement perpetuates sexism, food insecurity

Kavin Senapathy | 
An acronym that conjures specters like pesticides, cancer, obesity, the transformation of life forms into intellectual property, and corporate control ...
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Food fight: GMO labeling disagreements behind food lobby shakeup?

Catherine Boudreau, Helena Evich | 
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, rocked food circles in late October with the news that it was leaving the ...
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EU renews glyphosate herbicide license for 5 years, ending ‘heated debate’

Philip Blenkinsop | 
EU countries approved on Monday [Nov. 27] the use of weed-killer glyphosate for the next five years after a heated ...
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Does air pollution reach the womb, eventually leading to heart disease and shorter lives?

Ricki Lewis | 
New research gives expectant mothers reason to be more cautious with air pollution, which can cause damage to the critical ...
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Food, vaccines and medicine: How plant scientists are changing the world

Erica Hawkins | 
[Editor's note: Erica Hawkins is a PhD student at the John Innes Centre and the University of East Anglia studying medicinal plant ...
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French scientist calls for inquiry into IARC’s ‘misbehavior’ on glyphosate cancer study

Marcel Kuntz | 
Following revelations that IARC withheld data showing the herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer, French molecular geneticist Marcel Kuntz calls ...
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Viewpoint: GMO crops are future of African farming—if anti-biotech activists get out of the way

Matt Ridley | 
[I]nfluenced by European environmentalists, most African countries forbid the growing of genetically modified crops. This is a pity, because unless ...
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