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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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Swiss bee expert: Varroa mites—not neonicotinoid insecticides—primary threat to honeybees

Jean-Daniel Charrière, Simon Bradley | 
[Jean-Daniel] Charrière oversees bee research at the Swiss government's agriculture institute, Agroscope. ... Currently, there is a big focus among scientists, activists ...
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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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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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EU re-approval of glyphosate herbicide dodges farming economic woes—for now

Andrew Porterfield | 
If the European Union eventually phases out all the popular glyphosate herbicide, the loss of farm productivity could cost Europe ...
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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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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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Argentina authorizes new herbicide-resistant GMO soybean seeds

Maximiliano Rizzi | 
Argentina authorized on Friday [Nov. 24] the use of genetically modified soybean seeds resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, as ...
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France to vote against 5-year EU renewal of glyphosate herbicide

France will vote against a five-year extension of the license for weed-killer glyphosate that the European Commission will propose on ...
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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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Anti-biotechnology fake news: ‘Natural News’ claims RNAi used to ‘eliminate black people’

Mark Lynas | 
Anti-GMO campaigners are promoting a new conspiracy theory conflating the pioneering genetics technology of RNAi with anti-vaxxer myths and a ...
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Mexico revokes Monsanto permit to develop GMO soybean seeds in 7 states

Agriculture sanitation authority Senasica has revoked a permit held by Monsanto to commercialize genetically modified soy in seven Mexican states ...
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Golden Potatoes: Vitamin-A fortified GMO variety could help tackle childhood blindness in Africa

Ruth Kava | 
We've been praising the development of Golden Rice, genetically engineered to contain the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene, for years. Since vitamin ...
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Promising GMO and gene-edited wheat varieties hindered by costly regulations, consumer concerns

Meyer Sosland | 
“Everything that my lab has produced is down in the basement.” That is how Peggy G. Lemaux, Ph.D., described the ...
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Myth busting: Are natural pesticides really safer than synthetic ones?

Layla Katiraee | 
Both organic and conventional farmers use pesticides, but these chemicals are rampant in nature and many natural ones are more ...
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Farmers’ choice: GMOs help make Thanksgiving food abundant and affordable

Katie Pinke | 
Farmers utilizing choices in seed technology, such as GMOs, allow us to have an abundance of food choices at affordable ...
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African Seed Trade Association announces support for GMOs

Peter Mutai | 
A continental seed body on Friday [Nov. 17] supported the coexistence of genetically modified (GMO) seeds and conventional ones. The ...
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New disease-resistant GMO soybean variety could protect crop from ‘sudden death syndrome’

An Iowa State University agronomist is charting mechanisms – gene by gene – that could lead to soybean varieties resistant ...
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Bee friendly insecticides? Scientists unlock genetic key to kill crop pests, sparing beneficial insects

Researchers at Michigan State University’s entomology department have unlocked a key to maintain the insecticide’s effectiveness in eliminating pests without ...
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EU reauthorizes glyphosate herbicide-resistant GMO sugar beets for import, but not cultivation

Niamh Michail | 
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientists have cleared a genetically modified sugar beet developed by Monsanto and KWS for reauthorisation ...
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GMO supporters and critics weigh in on FDA’s biotech education initiative

Karl Haro von Mogel | 
[Editor's note: Karl Haro von Mogel is a geneticist with a PhD in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from UW-Madison with ...
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Glyphosate, other herbicides may contribute to antibiotic resistance, study finds

New Zealand researchers have found the active ingredients in commonly-used weed killers can cause bacteria to be less susceptible to ...
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Uganda approves open field trials for disease-resistant GMO bananas, paving way for 2021 release

Alon Mwesigwa | 
Researchers at the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) in Kawanda [Uganda] have said they are ready to go for open- ...
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