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Future of milk? Genetically engineered yeast could replace cows

Beth Kowitt | 
The latest new buzzword in food tech? Fermentation. And we’re not talking about the kimchi or kombucha kind. Rather, it’s ...
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‘Save the Bees?’ General Mills campaign perpetuates myths about GMOs, pesticides

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
Watch out – Buzz, the iconic mascot for General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios, is going to be missing in action ...
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Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?

[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
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Farms are not like Eden: The case for aggressive human intervention in agriculture

Andrew McGuire | 
Farming is controlling nature for our own purposes. There is no utopian state. We should stop trying to restore, recover, ...
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Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?

[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
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Green fears: Why are pro-science liberals less embracing of GMO safety than conservatives?

Dan Kahan | 
[Editor’s note: Dan Kahan is a professor of psychology at Yale Law School. This is a follow-up to an earlier blog ...
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Palm reading: How genetic, epigenetic scans could boost palm oil yields, reduce environmental footprint

Wudan Yan | 
Palm oil is a commodity that generally evokes images of mass deforestation, human-rights violations and dying orangutans. In Indonesia and ...
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Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?

Margaret Zeigler | 
[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
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Should US spend more on agricultural R&D to make food cheaper, more sustainable?

[Editor's note: Margaret Zeigler is executive director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a private-sector voice for productivity growth throughout the agricultural ...
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Plants challenged to ‘breath’ because of climate change — This gene tweak could change that

New work from a joint team of plant biologists and ecologists from Carnegie and Stanford University has uncovered the factor ...
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Minnesota lawmakers block legislation to regulate neonicotinoid insecticides

Dan Gunderson | 
Minnesota lawmakers have derailed legislation to give the state Department of Agriculture authority over seeds treated with insecticide. Seeds treated ...
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Organic activists claim organic Ruby Red grapefruits and durum wheat are GMOs in disguise

Andrew Porterfield | 
Last century, a genetic innovation gave a huge boost to agricultural productivity. And, no, it wasn't recombinant DNA. And yes, ...
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Understanding innovation’s ‘enemies’: Calestous Juma explores how new technologies can overcome social opposition

Alex Trembath | 
[Editor's Note: The following is a review of the book, "Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies" by Harvard ...
Conservatives who trust science more likely to view GMOs as safe than liberal counterparts, survey finds

Conservatives who trust science more likely to view GMOs as safe than liberal counterparts, survey finds

Dan Kahan | 
[Editor's note: Dan Kahan is a professor of psychology at Yale Law School.]  [I]n 2010, the General Social Survey (GSS) asked ...
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‘Industrial’ corn: GM variety makes ethanol more energy efficient

Keith Norman | 
Farmers in [North Dakota] will grow an industrial-quality corn specifically designed for the ethanol industry this summer. Corn with the ...
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With pesticide resistance rising, crop scientists look to CRISPR, bacteria for solutions

Brooke Borel | 
Resistance to conventional pesticides — among insects, weeds or microbial pathogens — is common on farms worldwide. CropLife International, an ...
Australian election results could spell bad news for GMO farmers

Australian election results could spell bad news for GMO farmers

Colin Beetles | 
Labor's comprehensive victory at the [March 2017] WA [Western Australia] election raises questions about the future status of plant biotechnology ...
Study challenges belief that milkweed is sole cause of monarch butterfly declines

Study challenges belief that milkweed is sole cause of monarch butterfly declines

Diana Yates | 
Steep declines in the number of monarch butterflies reaching their wintering grounds in Mexico are not fully explained by fewer ...
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EPA/Monsanto collusion alleged in lawsuit challenging safety of Roundup herbicide

Danny Hakim | 
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's coverage of glyphosate's cancer risk here and here. Read the American Council on Science and Health's ...
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Tanzania’s biosafety regulations force researchers to burn harvest from GMO corn field trial despite food shortages

Mark Lynas | 
In keeping with strict biosafety regulations, all the GM maize material is burned once the harvest data is collected. The ...
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To boost crop yields, stress tolerance one biotech startup turns to epigenetics

Jim Lane | 
The news that’s arrived is that TechAccel, the Kansas City-based technology and venture development company, announced it has completed an ...
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Facing climate change, plant breeders use genetics, robotics to develop crops ‘that can adapt to it all’

Diane Nelson | 
Variable weather is creating extreme challenges for crop breeding in California. How do you develop crops that will thrive under ...
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Corn genetically engineered to neutralize toxic mold would be boon for health of poor women in Africa

Chelsea Whyte | 
It’s a silent killer lurking in common foods. A carcinogenic toxin made by [mold] kills thousands around the world and ...
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To boost crop yields and stress tolerance, one biotech startup turns to epigenetics

Jim Lane | 
The news that’s arrived is that TechAccel, the Kansas City-based technology and venture development company, announced it has completed an ...
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‘Environmental DNA’ tests could aid in management of commercial, endangered fish

Jim Robbins | 
Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is at the center of a brand new kind of fish and wildlife biology, and it ...
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To make farming more sustainable, don’t mimic nature — do it better

Andrew McGuire | 
Behind many efforts to make agriculture more sustainable is the idea that our farming systems need to be more like ...
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Is organic farming ‘holy grail’ to environmental, food scarcity problems? Study says no

Sachi Wickramasinghe | 
Many people choose organic thinking it’s better for humans and the planet, but a new UBC study published today in ...
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