Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Charles Batchelor | 
Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

Scientists in UK urge more agricultural R&D

Forecasts of a world population of 9 billion has prompted the publication on Friday of Feeding the Future, a report ...

“Food police” routed, food movement failing

Jayson Lusk | 
As Americans tuck into their turkey and dressing on Thursday, they might add one little item to the list of ...

Mexico takes a step toward allowing GM corn

Jill Replogle | 
As California voters were considering whether to require food with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, the ongoing ...

In defense of eugenics

Gerhard Adam | 
I expect that belief in eugenics is far more prevalent than most people would comfortably wish it to be. One ...

Prop 37: The failure of a fringe group

Keith Schrader | 
Those who fight against genetically engineered crops are fast becoming a fringe group. Despite years of hard scientific facts, they ...

Will Obama deliver on campaign promise of GMO labeling?

Nicholas Tomasi | 
The stance of the Barack Obama administration on genetically modified foods (GMOs) has been under great scrutiny for many years, ...

Why did Prop 37 fail? It wasn’t just the money

Karl Haro von Mogel | 
Michele R. Simon, a lawyer and paid writer and spokesperson for the Yes on 37 campaign argued that it lost ...
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Anti-GM corn study reconsidered: Séralini finally responds to torrent of criticism

Jon Entine | 
We are now two months into L'affaire Séralini—the publication of a maize rodent study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini and ...

Should we be worried about Obama’s DNA getting hacked? (Video)

An article in The Atlantic suggests hacking the President's DNA is actually a viable assassination threat. It sounds like something ...

Genetically Modified: two words worth $45 million

M. Joy Hayes | 
Despite significant popular support for the labeling of genetically modified foods in recent polls, when it came time to vote ...

The genes we eat: a conversation

Erik Stokstad | 
Many worry that genetic advances could result in risks to our health and the environment—concerns that surfaced again in the ...
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Center for Genetics and Society launches campaign against mitochondrial gene therapy

Jessica Cussins | 
The Center for Genetics and Society, known categorical rejection of the most innovative forms of gene therapy, has launched a ...

GM labeling fight goes to Washington State

Ariel Schwartz | 
The next stop for the GMO labeling movement is Washington State, where I-522 (also known as "The People’s Right To ...

What’s in store for food reform in Obama’s second term?

Tom Laskawy | 
When Obama was first elected, food reformers dreamt big. As Michael Pollan wrote just after the 2008 election in his ...

Food movement loses battles but will win war

Mark Bittman | 
While support for GE food labels has never been stronger, the incessant drumbeat of misleading and outright false industry advertising ...

North Dakota protects “modern” agriculture

Voters in heavily agriculture-dependent North Dakota became the first to enshrine the right to farm in their state constitution, a ...
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Goldfish Crackers targeted in ‘natural’ lawsuit in wake of Prop 37

Elaine Watson | 
While Prop 37 did not pass, the failure to disclose the presence of GMOs in foods that are marketed as ...
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European Society of Human Genetics reprimands Myriad on patent secrets

Emily Stehr | 
The European Society of Human Genetics policy committee has chastised Myriad Genetics for refusing to share its patented genetic database ...
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International approvals slow for biotech crops

Ross Korves | 
The global market for biotech crops will continue to be fractured unless international approvals are harmonized.Each nation has its own ...

Scientists cheer death of Prop 37

Christie Wilcox | 
Scientists, on the whole, are pleased to see Prop 37 fail this week. This blog post from SciAm explains the ...

Call to arms from Grist in wake of Prop 37 loss

Susie Cagle | 
Despite the defeat of Prop 37, the food movement is being urged to keep fighting the good fight. Grist, in ...
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Genetics at center of several “battlegrounds” in next 4 years

Brandon Keim | 
In the wake of Obama's victory, Wired takes a look at the battles to come in the next four years ...
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