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Revamping ‘woefully out of date’ biotech regulations easier said than done

Brooke Borel | 
Depending on whom you talk to, the CRISPR’d mushroom isn’t strictly defined as synthetic biology. Still, genetic technology exists on ...
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Dow Chemical asks Trump administration to ‘set aside’ government studies pesticide maker says are flawed

Michael Biesecker | 
Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point ...
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Did Bill Nye err when discussing Monsanto, GMOs in new Netflix series?

Aja Romano | 
Bill Nye comes out swinging in the first season of Bill Nye Saves the World, his new Netflix series. ...
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Sustainably grown meats hitting markets, but public perception of technologies may hinder benefits

Beth Kowitt | 
Americans love protein. Each year they eat an average of 210 pounds of meat per capita, more than double the ...
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Costly delays: Australia’s sluggish adoption of GMO crops carries a hefty price tag

Scott Biden | 
The nation lost out on $431 million in economic gains, while also missing a chance to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Funding for USDA’s National Organic Program tripled under Obama. What will Trump do with it?

Jay Lehr, Mischa Popoff | 
[Editor's note: Mischa Popoff is a policy advisor at The Heartland Institute, and is the author of Is it Organic? Jay Lehr ...
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Spider silk from plants? GMO tobacco could provide new generation of tough, lightweight clothing

Richard Gray | 
Scientists have revealed they can generate the fine but strong threads used by spiders to make their webs by growing ...
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Sweet success: Genes identified that could lead to sucrose-boosting GM sugarcane

Scientists in Brazil are taking steps towards genetically modifying sugarcane so it produces more sucrose naturally, looking to eventually boost ...
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International Monsanto Tribunal: Fake trial distracts from real food, farming problems

Kavin Senapathy | 
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is an author, public speaker and science advocate.] The verdict I predicted has landed—agri-giant Monsanto has ...
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After months without a secretary of agriculture, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue confirmed to post

Bartholomew Sullivan | 
After months without a secretary of agriculture, the Senate voted Monday evening [April 24, 2017] to confirm former Georgia Gov ...
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Are neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments endangering wild bees?

Richard Levine | 
Environmentalists often blame neonicotinoid insecticides for the plight of wild bee species. But the science doesn't support this hypothesis, and ...
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Why I changed my mind about the need to feed my kids organic food

Jenny Splitter | 
[Editor's note: Jenny Splitter is a writer, storyteller and mother of two.] A few years ago I learned that most ...
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Malawi moves towards commercialization of GM cotton, cowpeas and bananas

Katherine Chaweza | 
[Editor's note: Katherine Chaweza is a 2016 Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellow and the communication and outreach coordinator for the Programme ...
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Cargill under fire: ‘We don’t agree’ GMOs unhealthy; biotech crops ‘key tool for sustainability’

Cheang Ming, Christine Tan | 
Cargill is attempting to satisfy both ends of the spectrum by acknowledging the growing group of people against genetically-modified organisms ...
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Wide range, high levels of pesticides found in apple orchard honeybee colonies

Blaine Friedlander | 
Honeybees - employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season - encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according ...
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‘Thirsty plants’ to land conservation: How biotechnology helps address developing world’s agricultural challenges

Sarah Evanega | 
[Editor's note: Sarah Evanega holds a doctorate in plant biology from Cornell University, where she is the director of the Alliance ...
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Fish farm problem? Salmon diseases evolving more virulently in farms

Claire Asher | 
Fish farming is one of the fastest growing food production sectors in the world, but infections caused by bacteria, viruses, ...
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How US NGOs are exploiting Europe’s precautionary chemophobia to ban glyphosate and GMOs

David Zaruk | 
Environmental NGOs have a harder time influencing the evidence-based US regulatory system, so they're taking the fight to Europe — ...
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‘Wouldn’t help much’: What would a ban on neonicotinoid insecticides do for bee health?

Anthony King | 
“Everyone knows insecticides can kill bees,” says honeybee biologist Francis Ratnieks at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. “The ...
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Non-GMO breeding changes the makeup of crops more than genetic engineering

Rod Herman et al. | 
The composition of GM breeding stacks was more similar to the composition of iso-hybrids than was the composition of nonGM ...
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Can you be a skeptic and anti-GMO?

Myles Power | 
[Editor’s note: Myles Power is a chemist in Manchester, England.] Over the past year, I have been giving a talk to ...
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Talking Biotech: What’s blocking GMO crop adoption in Africa?

Matthew Harsh | 
Sociologist Matthew Harsh: Poor communication between Kenyan scientists, policymakers, farmers and anti-biotech activists slows GMO adoption ...
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March for Science: Agony and ecstasy of a Malaysian agricultural biotechnology science communicator

Mahaletchumy Arujanan | 
In many ways, communicating science can be more difficult than scientific research. As advances in biotechnology speed up, scientists around ...
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Will corporate mergers in agriculture spur innovation?

Ed Wiederstein | 
[Editor's note: Ed Wiederstein is a former president of the Iowa Farm Bureau and a farmer in Iowa.] When funding was more ...
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‘Glyphosate is vital’: Scottish farmers launch campaign to support herbicide’s reauthorization

As the EU decision on whether or not to re-authorise the herbicide glyphosate approaches, a farming union has called on ...
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‘Backlash’ against GMOs may be more about corporate power than science

Vanessa Bates Ramirez | 
Much of the backlash against GMOs is less about genetic engineering and more about the business practices of the corporations ...
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There are no GM oranges — So why is Tropicana deceiving consumers with Non-GMO label?

Greg Jaffe | 
[Editor's note: Greg Jaffe is the Director of the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public ...
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