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Talking Biotech: Benefits and unanticipated consequences of neonicotinoid insecticide use

John Tooker | 
Penn State entomologist John Tooker: Neonic coated seeds are not a silver bullet for pest control in all situations ...
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Less toxic cigarettes? ‘Genetic road map’ of tobacco could lead to reduced carcinogen levels

A new genetic road map of tobacco has been used to successfully identify and clone two mutated genes associated with ...
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Opinion: ‘Fear-based’ food labels—like Dannon’s GMO-free claims—undermine confidence in safe food system

Kent Messer | 
[Editor's note: Kent Messer is a professor at the University of Delaware.] As a behavioral economist, I analyze what motivates ...
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Is pink bollworm pest developing resistance to GMO Bt corn in India?

Bhavika Jain | 
Genetically modified or Bt cotton is no longer resistant to pink bollworm - a major pest in Mahahrashtra, prompting the state government to write ...
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Consumer opposition stalls GM feed crops that could revolutionize Australia’s dairy industry

Peter Hunt | 
The [Australian] dairy industry’s greatest innovations in a generation — genetically modified high-energy ryegrass and virus-resistant clover — have still ...
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Talking Biotech: Domesticating wild plants to seed new crops and foods

Lazaro Peres | 
Brazilian plant physiologist Lazaro Peres: Using genetic technology to identify desirable traits in wild plants and create new crops ...
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‘Cow of the future’: Genetically engineered ‘heat resistant’ cattle could adapt to climate change

Scientists are developing a breed of genetically-modified 'cows of the future' that will be more heat resistant and have superior ...
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‘Game changer’ herbicide that could supplement glyphosate developed from anti-malaria chemical

Kit Mochan | 
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have used chemicals destined to develop new treatments for malaria as a ...
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Tomorrow’s greenhouse: Artificial intelligence-controlled ‘food computers’ grow better-tasting crops

Adele Peters | 
Inside a shipping container-sized box at MIT Media Lab, crops of basil are growing in micro-climates designed by artificial intelligence ...
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LA Times: Food Evolution GMO movie persuasive not polemical, ‘potentially revolutionary’

Kenneth Turan | 
Calm, careful, potentially revolutionary, "Food Evolution" is an iconoclastic documentary on a hot-button topic. Persuasive rather than polemical, it's the ...
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Harmful, beneficial or no effect? Flawed European bees and neonicotinoids study could be misused to support ban

Iida Ruishalme | 
A widely-discussed 3-country study showed no clear impact of neonics on bees. Why did the authors appear to explain away ...
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Chinese government, Dow Chemical work together to convince public GMO foods safe

Geoff Cutmore, Huileng Tan | 
With a population of 1.4 billion and limited arable land, China is trying hard to convince citizens to accept genetically ...
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Hollywood Reporter on Food Evolution: ‘Polished and provocative’, challenges ‘enviro-activist orthodoxy’

John DeFore | 
THE BOTTOM LINE: A polished and provocative call for activists to be as scientifically minded as they believe they are ...
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Redefining natural selection: How synthetic biology may solve sustainability challenges in food, fuel and health

Bryan Walsh | 
[S]ynthetic biology] is poised to change how we feed ourselves, clothe ourselves, fuel ourselves—and possibly even change our very selves ...
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Independent health agencies disagree with IARC’s glyphosate cancer designation

Kendra Pierre-Louis | 
The list of [Proposition 65] labeled substances [in California] includes marijuana smoke (but eating marijuana is fine, by California standards), ...
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GMO rice that could reduce synthetic fertilizer usage developed by Indian scientists

New GM rice developed by [India's] National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) can improve uptake of natural Phosphorus from ...
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Vinegar may activate ‘epigenetic switch’ that could increase crops’ drought tolerance

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a new, yet simple, way to increase drought ...
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Organic crop farming in US slides even as demand for organic food increases

Chase Purdy | 
The time is ripe for Jeff Bezos to work his business acumen on an area of the US food system ...
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Backlash to flawed ‘landmark’ European neonicotinoid study: Inconclusive data suggest both health benefits and harm

Jon Entine | 
Upside down news: A backlash by independent scientists has begun to emerge, challenging sensational accounts of a 'landmark' European field ...
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Opinion: Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio and foodie movement push expensive, counterproductive farm policies

Julie Kelly | 
Tom Colicchio wants every child to taste an apple by the age of three. That’s just one of the many ...
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Following controversial neonicotinoid study, researchers warn replacement pesticides may be worse for bees

Jenna Gallegos | 
Two large-scale studies published Thursday [June 29] suggest that common pesticides may harm bee colonies. In some cases, the pesticides ...
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Global hunger challenge requires mix of high-tech, GM and organic methods

Andrew Porterfield | 
As the world's population booms, solutions are needed to feed an additional 2 billion humans by 2050. Can organic and ...
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US biotech seed patents linked to increasing corn yields

[Mariam Barry at ENSTA ParisTech in France and colleagues] have studied the yield of hybrid corn in the U.S. since 1985 ...
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Beepocalypse not now: Canada’s honeybee colonies up 10% in 2017 to record high

Owen Roberts | 
On Canadian farms, almost 800,000 honeybee colonies are in active duty this year. That’s about 10 percent more than in ...
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Opinion: GMO opponents in ‘frenzied heat’ trying to discredit Food Evolution movie

Joan Conrow | 
Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle and other anti-GMO activists have complained that the documentary Food Evolution is nothing more than a ...
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French PM rejects ag minister’s plea, green lights 2018 neonicotinoid insecticide ban

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe weighed in on a row between his environment and agriculture ministers ... to rule that ...
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Prince Edward Island approves expansion of first North American GE salmon facility

Brian Higgins | 
A [Prince Edward Island] hatchery that will produce genetically modified salmon has received the go-ahead for two 40,000 square-foot buildings to expand ...
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