Ag Gene Editing
Seed industry, farmers ‘pleased’ with proposed USDA genetic engineering rules
Editor's note: The comment period for these regulations -- as well as those proposed by the FDA -- opened on Jan ...
Addressing GMO concerns: Will Big Ag let farmers save seeds?
There is a certain emotional appeal to the idea that nobody should be able to patent foods. But how would ...
Addressing GMO concerns: Are agricultural chemicals hazardous, overused?
This is the second in a series that explores common objections to GMOs that are found on the internet. This ...
Are we slowly breeding our way to stupidity?
A study from Iceland is the latest to raise the prospect of a downwards spiral into imbecility...The scientists used a ...
Addressing GMO concerns: Are foods “made in labs” the same as those “made by nature”
This is the first in a series that explores common objections to GMOs that are found on the internet. The ...
3 disease resistant GMOs could address climate change and save farmers billions
The next generation of genetically engineered crops--if technology skeptics do not have their way--will bring a range of benefits to ...
Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: Greenpeace, green lobby spread ‘lies’ about GMOs to raise money
Editor's Note: This article discusses a recent talk by Sir Richard Roberts, awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contribution to ...
Will gene editing promote ‘industrial farming’? Are there sustainable alternatives?
Editor's Note: This article was written by two members of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, an ...
UC Davis’ Alison Van Eenennaam’s deep dive into latest Séralini GMOs-are-dangerous paper
The controversial paper by the Séralini team challenges a central tenet of biotech proponents: are GM crops 'substantially equivalent' to ...
Could CRISPR revolution help streamline US, EU regulations of GM crop technology?
Under current US and contemplated EU regulation, when CRISPR is used to modify a handful of nucleotides to knockin or ...
Biotech industry focuses on CRISPR, new gene breeding techniques to break regulatory logjam
Commodity groups, farm organizations and others considered the summer’s GMO labeling law a prudent compromise for what had become a ...
Advances in CRISPR, gene editing helping ‘clean tech’ get off ground after years of failure
A decade ago, a group of biologists, venture capitalists and computer whizzes...hoped to overturn polluting industries with microorganisms cheerily excreting ...
Why business journalists should not write on science: Washington Post botches India GMO cotton exposé
Business reporters should not attempt to write about science--a point underscored by a botched Washington Post "investigation" about growing cotton ...
Recapping 2016: 10 ways anti-GMO activists put ideology ahead of science
When they said we would have to add an extra second to the clocks at the end of 2016, there ...
Understanding transgenics: How genetic modification in conventional crop breeding and GMOs differ
“GMOs are a hot topic and very misunderstood by many,” [Bejo Seeds Senior Tomato Breeder Doug Heath] says. “It is ...
Teenager raped to death in US Animal Research Center (NY Times’ Michael Moss’ F in journalism)
In January 2015, New York Times journalist Michael Moss skewered the research protocols of the US Meat Animal Research Center ...
Biologist, environmental lawyer, food columnist: GMOs shouldn’t be controversial
Two UCLA faculty members — molecular biologist Robert Goldberg and international law and policy scholar Edward Parson — defended the ...
Addressing all farmers’ challenges: Taking ideology out of the glyphosate and ‘superweed’ debate
Hardy weeds that develop from continued use of a limited control system are problems for all farmers. This is not ...
New sequencing technique will make cloning genes for disease resistance in plants easier
[The] constant evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens, whereby the organisms causing disease in plants are mutating to avoid plant ...
Farmer: Why I choose to grow genetically engineered crops
GMO supporters generally stick to positive talking points about the technology, while critics stick to the negative. Terry Daynard, a ...
Crop biotech policy experts: Fallout from ‘equivocating’ National Academy of Sciences GMO report now being felt
Science is not democratic. The National Academies of Sciences report muddied the debate about GE crop yields, gave undue credence ...
Activist journalists, NGOs disinformation campaign against approved, fast-growing GMO salmon
There is a growing body of evidence pointing to the safety, utility and necessity of precision breeding (aka genetic modification) ...
New Zealand won’t permit field trials of sustainable GMO ryegrass
AgResearch scientists have developed a genetically modified (GM) ryegrass that has a 40 per cent increase in production and a 30 ...
Gene editing could boost tomato yields by speeding fruit ripening
Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team ...
Video: Ecological and economic value of restoring American chestnut tree using GM technology
American chestnut trees were once among the most majestic hardwood trees in the eastern deciduous forests, many reaching 80 to ...
Gene conveying resistance to costly crop damaging fungus identified
A major breakthrough in the cloning of a resistance gene to eliminate wheat scab — a widespread disease responsible for ...
‘Diversity Breeding’: Recovering desirable traits from crops’ wild relatives
A genetic toolbox held at the fingertips of plant breeding scientists is set to completely revolutionise the way crops are ...
