Ag Gene Editing
Targeting invasive pests with genetically tailored poison in New Zealand
Recently, New Zealand has been at the center of a heated debate over whether it is either feasible or ethical to use ...
Bill Gates’ ‘supercow’ quest: Funding for livestock genetics research aims to boost milk production
Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man a hybrid supercow with the ...
Farmers, scientists worry anti-GMO activists could stymie CRISPR and other gene-edited crop research
[N]ew precision breeding tools are creating such a buzz that some activists suggest techniques like CRISPR Cas9 - which involves ...
Plagued by pest, African farmers may soon have access to insect-resistant GMO cowpeas—for free
US government funding and royalty-free Bt technology from Monsanto will enable West African countries to provide farmers with free cowpea ...
Marijuana genome map promises to unlock potential of ‘magical’ plant
The fledgling cannabis industry is full of wide-eyed claims about what pot can do. Outperform your favorite energy drink? Maybe. Cure ...
Monsanto looks to launch new herbicide-tolerant canola, soybean varieties in coming years
Dicamba-tolerant canola is coming and so is a triple-threat soybean, resistant to glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate. That’s just some of ...
EU seeks ‘clarity’ on court’s recommendation not to regulate new crop breeding techniques as GMOs
The European Commission expects “important” clarity on the scope of GMO legislation ahead of a Court ruling on new plant ...
Gene editing: How breeders use CRISPR and TALEN to improve crops, livestock
Animal and plant breeders are trying out a set of powerful new tools which have the potential to revolutionize agricultural ...
Viewpoint: Plant scientists need to engage public on gene editing in agriculture
Easing the public into being more comfortable with genome-edited food will take more than simply stating facts according to Kevin ...
Australia set to reduce regulations of CRISPR gene editing to speed up crop research
Australia is set to reform how it regulates new genetic engineering techniques, which experts say will help to dramatically speed ...
European court recommends gene-edited crops be exempt from EU GMO laws
Gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws on GM food, although individual states can regulate them if they ...
EU braces for landmark decision on whether CRISPR, other New Plant Breeding Techniques will be regulated as GMOs
UPDATE: The European Court of Justice's advocate general has said gene editing technologies should be largely exempted from EU laws ...
‘Sabotage’ of field trials by anti-GMO activists causes seed company to reconsider research in France
Limagrain, the world’s fourth-largest seed maker, will consider moving its research activities out of France if field trials in its ...
Preventing GMO gene flow: Scientists design synthetic species that can’t breed with wild counterparts
Genetically modified organisms could potentially do a lot of good for the world, like ending the spread of diseases, or maybe ...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer. How genetic testing guided what to do next.
Genetics counselor and writer Ricki Lewis explains how a breast cancer diagnosis led her to genetic testing—and why she decided ...
In Uganda, anti-GMO scare tactics even taint conventional hybrid crops
Uganda is moving closer to allowing cultivation of GMO crops. But there is considerable confusion among the Ugandan public over ...
Talking Biotech: 91-year-old geneticist Maxine Thompson aims to expand fruit diversity with new berry breeds
Oregon State fruit breeder Maxine Thompson: A trailblazer in plant science, now retired from academia, she continues to work on ...
Public embrace of CRISPR gene editing key to future of agriculture
The process of producing food, protecting the environment, and improving animal health is advancing at a seemingly breakneck pace. These ...
Can CRISPR gene-edited ‘terminator bulls’ revolutionize the beef industry?
After a year of trying, [Australian geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam's lab at the University of California succeeded in using] the ...
How African nations expect to learn from Burkina Faso’s GMO Bt cotton breeding problems
Stakeholders in the agricultural biotechnology sector are offering assurances that the problems that prompted Burkina Faso to temporarily halt cultivation ...
Speed breeding: Researchers show wheat, canola and other key crops can be bred 6 generations per year
Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green ...
Popular Cavendish banana heading towards extinction, with GMO and gene edited varieties only viable saviors
We are in the age of the Cavendish, a banana cultivar that accounts for 99 percent of imports to the Western world. But ...
Improving the health of dairy cows using gene edited breeding–What are the issues?
How society regards the use of genetic modification and genome editing can have a significant influence on how these technologies ...
Farmer exposes Non-GMO Project’s Twitter crop patent misinformation campaign
The Non-GMO Project spreads misleading and inaccurate information about food, agriculture and health on its website and social media. This ...
Beyond GMOs: Gene editing’s potential to transform food and farming depends on public acceptance
[The following is part of a letter from the editor of MIT Technology Review, David Rotman.] Decades of fretting over the ...
Milk without cows: Commercialization of synthetic dairy products in the works
Berkeley-based Perfect Day – which is creating ‘vegan’ dairy proteins without cows – is in talks with food industry partners ...
Should we create ‘genetically superior’ bee species resistant to varroa mites?
In Australia, the bee industry is trying to find a way to protect Aussie bees from the varroa mite before ...
