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Can governments, public keep up with gene-editing revolution in agriculture?

Emily Unglesbee | 
A mushroom that doesn't brown. White flour with as much fiber as whole-wheat flour. Corn that can fend off northern ...
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How CRISPR gene editing could unlock resistance to destructive citrus greening disease

Sarah Nightingale | 
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important step in understanding the molecular mechanism of huanglongbing (HLB), ...
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Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: ‘I’m not going to let the fearmongers dominate the conversation’ on CRISPR gene-edited food

Marissa Fessenden | 
Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam has six calves that are rather unusual. Most people might not pick up on what’s ...
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Viewpoint: USDA made right decision to not over-regulate CRISPR gene-edited crops

Daniel Kelley | 
The future of farming just got a lot brighter. On March 28, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that his department ...
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Viewpoint: Regulating CRISPR gene-edited livestock as ‘drugs’ hinders innovative research in US

Blake Hurst | 
In one of the final actions of the outgoing Barack Obama administration, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would ...
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Viewpoint: Mandatory GMO labeling counterproductive and based on pseudoscience

Steven Novella | 
More and more, scientific literacy is a critical virtue we should demand of our politicians. Yet questions about important scientific ...
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Climate change ready crops? Gene editing and other genomic advances show promise

Rajeev Varshney et al. | 
Development of climate resilient crops with accelerating genetic gains in crops will require integration of different disciplines/technologies, to see the ...
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Battling cancer-causing aflatoxin contamination in Africa with genetic engineering, other technologies

Steve Savage | 
We in the rich societies of the world don’t hear a lot about aflatoxin. It is probably one of the single ...
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Why the FDA and USDA can’t agree on the definition of a GMO

Chuck Dinerstein | 
The regulatory concerns about genetic modification of animals that I wrote about a while ago have moved towards a Congressional spotlight. Pigs ...
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Viewpoint: Gene editing could unleash next Green Revolution, but ‘GMO fearmongers’ need to be convinced

John Hart | 
The GMO fearmongers are able to take to Twitter and Facebook now because, like all of us, they have benefited ...
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Viewpoint: The government can’t decide what a GMO is—so how is it going to require mandatory labeling?

Tirzah Duren | 
If the food industry and government cannot come to a consensus about what is a GMO and what isn’t, labeling ...
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How synthetic biology can help world meet UN sustainable development goals

Víctor de Lorenzo et al. | 
The agenda of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenges the synthetic biology community—and the life sciences as a whole—to develop transformative ...
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Proposed 2018 Farm Bill includes amendments aimed at streamlining regulation of genetic engineering

Philip Brasher | 
The House Agriculture Committee approved a group of 15 Republican amendments to the panel’s farm bill that would modify a ...
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Biotech livestock: USDA, FDA diverge over how to regulate genetically engineered animals

Marc Heller | 
A disease that kills millions of pigs a year may soon meet its match — if two federal agencies can ...
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Plant ‘vaccines’, CRISPR gene editing could increase crop yields and reduce pesticide use

Richard Conniff | 
When European researchers recently announced a new technique that could potentially replace chemical pesticides with a natural “vaccine” for crops, ...
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How the European Court of Justice could open the door to gene editing and revive crop biotechnology in EU

Gordon Davidson | 
A “landmark opinion” from the European Court of Justice on the definition of genetically modified organisms could pave the way ...
'Will people eat it?': The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

‘Will people eat it?’: The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

Amy Dockser Marcus, Jacob Bunge | 
Zachary Lippman, a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, stood among 2 acres of his experimental crops, including some ...
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Viewpoint: Why ‘organic’ should be redefined to include GMOs

Amjad Husaini, Muhammad Sohail | 
The challenges of sustainable food production without damaging the environment for a growing human population have increased considerably. The current ...
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Will public embrace CRISPR crops if they can help feed our growing population and protect the environment?

Erin Brodwin | 
Experts estimate we’ll be eating the first CRISPR produce — likely strawberries or another type of fruit — within five ...
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UK scientists hopeful government will emulate USDA decision to not regulate gene-edited crops

Jonathan Riley | 
US regulators have ruled crops altered using gene-editing techniques do not need to come under the same restrictions as genetically ...
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Viewpoint: Gene editing in agriculture shouldn’t be regulated, whether applied to crops or animals

Chuck Dinerstein | 
CRISPR has changed the way alterations are made; so in the past year the FDA clarified their position, any intentional ...
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Genetic engineering may provide only long-term solution to citrus greening disease, National Academies of Sciences report says

Frank Giles | 
A single breakthrough discovery for managing citrus greening (also known as Huanglongbing or HLB) in Florida in the future is ...
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European farmers push EU to emulate USDA in not regulating CRISPR and other new crop breeding techniques

Sarantis Michalopoulos | 
European farmers warned EU policymakers on [April 10] to take immediate action and encourage innovative new plant breeding techniques following the ...
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Bill Gates endorses CRISPR gene editing to spur food, medical innovation

Joan Conrow | 
Philanthropist Bill Gates today strongly endorsed new gene editing techniques such as CRISPR, saying they could help humanity overcome some ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-biotech activists don’t understand the difference between GMOs and CRISPR crops

Chuck Dinerstein | 
CRISPR-Cas9 may genetically modify a crop, but it doesn’t necessarily result in a genetically modified organism, the dreaded GMO. To ...
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Why FDA’s proposed gene-editing regulations could stifle CRISPR research on food animals

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
A 2017 draft Food and Drug Administration guidance proposes mandatory, multigenerational premarket new animal drug evaluation of all “intentional genomic ...
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Wheat gene discovery could give breeders new tool to boost crop yields

A new study has isolated a gene controlling shape and size of spikelets in wheat in a breakthrough which could help breeders ...
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