Biotechnology
Agriculture expert to become first scientist CEO of Monstanto India
A 24-year agriculture veteran, Dr Gyanendra Shukla, Ph.D. (Agriculture Botany) and MBA, recently took over as Regional Lead and CEO, ...
Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains GMO process in foods
When humans began to farm between ten and twenty thousand years ago, they took the seeds from their best edible ...
Visit to vandalized Golden Rice field trial
On August 9 and 10, we traveled overland 320 kilometers to the Bicol region in Southern Luzon in the Philippines ...
The psychology of distrusting GMOs
Psychologists have long observed that there is a continuum in what we perceive as natural or unnatural. As the psychologist Robert Sternberg wrote in ...
GMOs and Science Denialists: A GMO Primer
Liberals often have a smug sense of superiority over conservatives when it comes to science literacy. True enough, a lot ...
Scotland: Farmers buck GM ban in hopes to reduce pesticide use
Recently, the UK Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, called on the European Union to relax strict restrictions on growing GM crops ...
Argentine scientists develop virus resistant GM potato
Argentine scientists have developed potato plants resistant to Potato Virus Y (PVY), a disease that reduces crop yields from 20 ...
Kauai anti-GMO bill deferred to September
The Kauai County Council unanimously deferred to September 9 a controversial proposal to demand disclosure of pesticide use and genetically ...
Mother Jones’s Philpott supports Pollan “talking points” attack on NYTimes GM orange story
Anti-GMO journalist defends Michael Pollan’s backhanded attack on Amy Harmon’s NYT story on GM oranges ...
First lab-grown burger: Groundbreaking, a bit bland, and definitely not GM
The worlds first lab-grown burger, made from muscle stem cells, was cooked and eaten in London. Despite technically delivering on ...
Grist: Who’s doing the research on GMO seeds?
Johnson begins a multi-step investigation into intellectual property rights. Do big biotech corporations really exercise draconian control on all biotech ...
Foodie Michael Pollan roundly criticized for baseless “industry talking points” tweet
Michael Pollan of the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism has had quite a week – and not in a good way ...
Tanzania: Formerly anti-GMO journalist Mark Lynas speaks out in favor of crop biotech
“In my view the controversy over GMOs represents one of the greatest science communications failures of the past half-century,” [Lynas] ...
In defense of the precautionary principle
Far from the pessimistic, innovation-strangling caricature, precaution actually celebrates the full depth and potential for human agency in knowledge and ...
France: Court overturns ban on Monsanto GE maize
France's highest administrative court rejected on Thursday a government ban on growing Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize (corn). In its ...
Cloud-based genomics: Will the Internet create GM super-oranges?
Farmers are hacking their operations with robots, sensors, drones, and good-old circuit boards, but that’s merely a first step. Thanks ...
French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”
French anti-biotech activists are now destroying "hidden GMOs" -- that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding ...
UK: Survey finds GM gaining favor
More people support rather than oppose the growing of genetically modified crops and more of them are prepared to buy ...
Is there something missing from the New York Times story on GE oranges?
Here's what I like about Amy Harmon's New York Times story: It's very nicely written, nicely organized, and it spins ...
Hawaii science ‘Swat Team’ part 2: Hawaii must resist anti-GMO scare, defend maize nurseries
Hawaii is an important player in global agriculture, and important nursery for the development of maize and other crops due ...
Next-generation sequencing, with love
Last week, researchers at the University of Oxford announced that the first baby had been born after undergoing a technique which can ...
Single genetic glitch may explain most allergies and asthma
Researchers think there may be a common genetic driver behind almost all allergic diseases ...
Can crop biotech save the cassava?
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD) are currently two major viral diseases that severely reduce cassava ...
Genetic exceptionalism and privacy
Despite privacy fears, genetic information may be less damaging than other forms of personal medical data ...
Would Rosalind Franklin have won a Nobel for her work on viruses?
Best known for her part in discovering the structure of DNA, Franklin also discovered the structure of viruses ...
Ghana approves first GE crops for trials
Ghana's Biosafety Bill was given Presidential assent to become law, after it has been in Parliament for four years. The ...
Russia to increase production of GE despite scientific uncertainty
The Government of the Russian Federation approved a "roadmap" to increase the production of GMOs. The move will be done ...
