Ag Gene Editing
Organics v conventional v GMOs: Debate grows over farm yields and sustainability
Dubious research supports claims that organic systems can close the yield gap with conventional (and GMO) farming. Obsession with organic ...
GMOs’ innovation crisis: AquaBounty salmon’s 20-year odyssey through nets of regulations
Why are there no GMO animals on the market? Here is a case study: Two decades after the FDA began ...
Should organic agriculture consider allowing gene-edited crops?
Proponents of agricultural biotechnology are calling for a reconsideration of the organic opposition to GMOs in light of [New Plant ...
Scientists’ ‘Open Letter’ to NY Times’ Public Editor brightlines Danny Hakim’s ‘misleading’ GMO article
Seven prominent scientists and academicians from around the world challenge the New York Times' ethics editor to correct the public ...
Environmental groups raise alarm about GMO salmon being licensed to multiple facilities
A bio-tech firm established in the maritime province of Prince Edward Island has created a [genetically modified] salmon that grows ...
Could glyphosate cause other health problems even if it’s not carcinogenic?
GMO skeptics have raised health concerns about glyphosate beyond claims, proven unfounded, that they cause cancer. Here is what the ...
Beer maker SABMiller working with scientists to produce flood-tolerant hops
[Editor's note: This excerpt was translated by Google Translate and lightly edited for clarity] Hops, one of the main ingredients ...
Using genomics and light to manipulate flavor, nutrition of crops
Crop scientist Kevin Folta of the University of Florida is renowned for his tireless efforts in science communication.... He’s less ...
GMO grasses could provide healthier forage for livestock, reduce environmental impact
Grasses of the future will make animals healthier, more productive and reduce their impact on the environment. AgResearch scientist Tony Conner said advances in modern ...
Myth busting on ‘contamination’: GMO farms’ halo effect often protects organic farms
Some organic farmers worry that their farms can be ‘contaminated’ by modified crops grown nearby. But no organic farmers in ...
German Plant Breeders Association says EU should not regulate gene-edited plants as GMOs
[Editor’s Note: The author, Petra Jorasch, is vice-secretary general of the German Plant Breeders’ Association.] A key issue, not only ...
Three scientist-mothers explain why they avoid non-GMO products
[The Non-GMO Project] NGP leads consumers to believe that choosing non-GMO is consistent with values that consumers (including ourselves) seek ...
Regulators to discuss whether gene edited crops should be allowed under organic label
[Editors note: Melody Meyer is the Vice President of Policy and Industry Relations for United Natural Foods(UNFI), a is a distributor of ...
SciBabe tackles ten GMO myths
According to the internet, GMOs are responsible for a lot of problems. You’ve heard that they cause almost everything, including ...
How to save Monarch butterflies? Banning glyphosate and planting milkweeds won’t help
According to activists, the decline of the Monarch butterfly population is primarily due to the over application of the popular ...
New GMO could protect wheat and barley against deadly blight
Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum, is a devastating disease of wheat and barley that leads to reduced ...
China cracks down on booming underground illegal GMO corn market
In an apparent bid to appease a public overwhelmingly opposed to ... GMOs, the Ministry of Agriculture has been putting pressure ...
Monsanto’s Robert Fraley: Comparing corn crops—Genetically modified in Ontario v non-GMO in France
Dr. Robert T. Fraley is Monsanto's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He awon the 2013 World Food Prize for "breakthrough achievements ...
Strawmen and selective statistics: Did The New York Times botch its critique of GMO crops?
An opinion piece maintaining that the current generation of GMO crops has under delivered in yield and led to increased ...
Chinese use CRISPR to breed hairier cashmere goats
In China, the world’s top producer of cashmere, scientists have been trying to breed more productive cashmere goats. They’ve now ...
Gene sequencing accelerates development of climate change fighting, disease-resistant cabernet grapes
A new sequencing technology, combined with a new computer algorithm that can yield detailed information about complex genomes of various ...
Can genetic engineers use genes from wild bananas to save our favorite fruit?
[Editor's note: The banana, the world's most popular fruit, is sterile. They are propagated by taking either cuttings or suckers and ...
Alison Van Eenennaam v Jennifer Kuzma: How should hornless cows and gene editing be regulated?
Dairy cows, which come from the Holstein breed, naturally grow horns. On farms, the horns are often physically removed because ...
Genetic breeding speeds improvement of African, Asian staple cowpea crop
UC leads six Feed the Future Innovation Labs ... The labs work to develop climate-resilient crops such as chickpea, cowpea and millet, ...
Florida Keys may determine whether GMO mosquitoes will be employed globally to fight Zika
[The mosquito species] Aedes aegypti ... lives in residential areas (they love closets, for example) and can lay eggs in ...
GenØk: How Norway came to revile GMOs
Through poorly designed studies on water fleas, the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology has fueled confusion and fear of GMOs ...
Transgenics unnatural? Nature doing ‘horizontal gene transfers’ for eternity
There is [a] fatal flaw to the argument that GMOs are “unnatural” because distant species do not exchange genes in nature ...