Ag Gene Editing
Ugandan journalist: How do you report on crop biotechnology when critics spread misinformation?
Genetic engineering could help Uganda combat some of its toughest food security challenges. But anti-GMO activists' misinformation campaigns are standing ...
How biotechnology can help India’s small farmers meet ‘zero hunger challenge’
Biotechnology covers a range of low (biofertilizers and microbiology) to high-end technologies (genetic engineering, gene editing etc). However, when we ...
Video: Miracle tomato? Israeli scientists developing tasty, drought-resistant variety
Finding out how to develop drought-tolerant tomatoes is one of the goals of this European Research project. Researchers here think ...
Did GMO connection prompt Gates Foundation to halt support for corn-aflatoxin breakthrough?
When Gates Foundation reviewers rejected a researcher's bid for new funding, one of the reasons cited was a concern over ...
Studying root traits could aid development of hardier crops
If you want a better corn crop, you need to get to the root of the matter. So says Duke ...
How the ‘DNA revolution’ might change the animal breeding and meat industry
The changes that have occurred in the last three months in the genetics and genomics world have probably equaled the changes in ...
Perfect apple: Replicating Honeycrisp success to create new, tastier varieties
The Honeycrisp is a millennial apple born in the 1990s, after years of careful planning. It’s also considered the first ...
Can we ‘bring back’ long extinct Galápagos tortoises?
Many members of the two species of tortoises — marked by the distinctive saddleback shape of their shells — were ...
Some antibiotic resistance in humans may trace to feeding strategies at fish farms
The mucky sediment below fish farms usually teems with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The presence of such bacteria is a cause of ...
Non-patented, non-GMO herbicide resistant rice in development
A consortium of scientists led the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore has identified a novel mutant of rice which ...
Netherlands wants CRISPR gene-edited crops exempt from Europe’s GMO laws
The Netherlands believes the new plant breeding techniques should not come under the GMO legislation as they are as safe ...
Disease-resistant cassava research advances could help African farmers
Why are these two cassava varieties—Namikonga and Albert—grown by farmers in Tanzania, able to withstand the devastating Cassava Brown Streak ...
Suffering for the love of birds: A scientist’s battle to save birds — and now her career
PETA begins to harass and intimidate a rising researcher in the field of animal behavior, scientist Kevin Folta urges the ...
Hidden hunger: How anti-GMO activists are blocking humanitarian biofortification in Africa and Asia
Many crops grown in the developing world are deficient in nutritional qualities--which makes biofortification critical if we hope to improve ...
From horses to mice, animal inbreeding has shaped human existence
Humans have been breeding animals together, a new natural selection, since the beginning of time. However, inbreeding can have drastically ...
GMO moths may be only way to control pesticide-immune cabbage-killing diamondbacks
NPR reports that as of now, the [diamondback moth], which cause billions of dollars in damage to [cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli ...
Open-source genomic platform could aid plant breeding in developing nations
The Genomic Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative (GOBII), a global project funded by an $18.5 million grant from the Bill and ...
Vulnerable system? What if world’s breadbaskets experience crop failure at same time?
Less than 25 percent of Earth’s cropland produces nearly 75% of the staple crops that feed us. Are globalization and ...
Next generation Golden Rice could be driven by CRISPR gene editing
Rice breeders today develop improved varieties from genetic breeding stock that has been advanced through thousands of generations and over ...
Activists claim gene editing could exploit animals, leads to unconscionable suffering
[Editor’s Note: Peter Stevenson is the Chief Policy Advisor for the UK-based charity Compassion In World Farming] Traditional selective [animal] ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in dogs: What can we learn about ourselves?
Canine compulsive disorder, like the version that afflicts humans, can take over the animal's eating, sleeping and basic functions. In ...
Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week – August 28, 2017
Could a Planet of the (Talking) Apes ever really evolve? | Ricki Lewis Viewpoint: Democrats’ GMO labeling push is an embarrassment ...
Selective breeding for shorter plant stems contributed to ‘Green Revolution’ yield gains
Untangling the genetics that control and regulate the yield of a crop is a complicated, but potentially rewarding puzzle. High-yielding ...
CRISPR could efficiently improve difficult-to-breed oilseed crops, study shows
CRISPR/Cas9 is a valuable tool for both basic and applied research that has been widely applied to different plant species ...
Infographic: Why single out GMOs—one of many forms of crop modification—for labeling?
[Editor's note: Layla Katiraee is a scientist at Integrated DNA Technologies. She has a PhD in molecular genetics with a ...
Viewpoint: Democrats’ GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives
A group of House Democrats, who called the proposed federal GMO labeling standards 'weak' and 'confusing,' are being urged not ...
Lessons from Ground Zero: Key Haven rejected release of GMO mosquitoes because of a ‘mistrust of science’
When Monroe County [Florida] held a nonbinding referendum last year on whether to allow the experimental release of genetically modified ...
