Ag Gene Editing
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 ...
Monsanto, Syngenta consolidation provides opportunity for smaller seed companies to flourish
Farmers might be worried about the multibillion-dollar deals transforming the agriculture industry, but independent seed companies see the consolidation as ...
Alison Van Eenennaam video: Animal geneticist on humane benefits of genetically dehorning cattle
Alison Van Eenennaam and colleagues at UC Davis, along with researchers at the biotech company Recombinetics, who aim to develop ...
France asks EU to regulate whether gene edited crops are GMOs
France has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on the legal classification of products generated by new plant breeding ...
World Food Prize awarded to scientists who developed biofortified sweet potato
Four scientists have been awarded the 2016 World Food Prize for enriching sweet potatoes, which resulted in health benefits for ...
Could GMO cassva prevent ‘konzo’ disease caused by cyanide in staple crop?
[K]onzo [is] a neurotoxic disease that people succumb to when they have nothing to eat except for the white roots ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Anti-GMO activists target public scientists
As the mock trial circus winds down in the Hague, fringe anti-GMO activists plan to reinvigorate their targeting of independent ...
Mark Lynas: India’s GMO mustard will bring cheaper hybrids, not increase herbicide use
In an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Mark Lynas, a reporter with the Cornell Alliance who reports on crop biotechnology around ...
India unlikely to approve GMO mustard in time for coming growing season
The debate around genetically modified crops and a recent PIL in the Supreme Court may force the government to delay ...
Syrian seed bank that holds genes to fight climate change relocating due to war
A major seed bank in Aleppo, Syria, holds genes that might help researchers breed crops to survive climate change. But ...
Genomics will allow plant breeders to use seed banks more effectively
There are vast numbers of seeds in gene banks around the world. A new approach uses their genomes to predict ...
Myth busting: RNA from GMO foods won’t alter your genes
Biotech critics claim ingesting RNA from food like Monsanto’s Bt corn can change the genes of those that eat it ...
Pentagon wants to develop ‘safe genes’ to stop biohackers from making weapons with CRISPR
[T]he Pentagon is moving to...find a “safe course” to rein [gene editing technology] in. But it will be a difficult balancing ...
DuPont-Pioneer collaborating with non-profit to develop gene-edited, disease-resistant maize
Although controversial, genetically modified (GM) crops constitute one option for increasing yields and have not been proven to be dangerous ...
Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto has GMO critics taking aspirin
Politicians and activists have been speaking out against Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto. Should consumers and farmers worry about the increasing ...
How one writer-mother became a GMO myth-buster
...And an increasing number of science-minded, pro-GMO writers and activists are speaking up to defend the potential benefits of GM foods ...
Monsanto says Bayer merger will help company tackle climate change challenges
"We're going to have 3 billion more people join the Middle Class, which along with the growing population is a ...
Genes linked to ‘human seeking behavior’ in dogs tied to bipolar disorder, autism in man
They like to be close to us, make eye contact and communicate with us – unusual behaviour between two different ...
Nobel laureate Richard Roberts: Opposition to GMOs is an ‘indulgence of the affluent’
In June, more than a hundred Nobel laureates sent a clear message to Greenpeace: abandon the campaign against GMOs. Since ...
