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Video: Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide fiasco explained

Nick Saik | 
Dicamba… Miracle herbicide? Ultimate boondoggle? Bit of both really… These videos talks about why a 50 years old herbicide is ...
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How will government regulations impact CRISPR gene editing in agriculture?

Chris Sworder | 
In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible for regulating food and agricultural products, has made ...
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French scientists call on politicians to listen to science, not ‘scare-mongers’ on GMOs, glyphosate

Jean-Paul Oury | 
Virginie Tournay, of CEVIPOF, a scientific research institute at the famous Science Po [Paris Institute of Political Studies] published the following article ...
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Viewpoint: Why university scientists shouldn’t be subject to public record requests

Claudia Polsky | 
This Article confronts a dangerous contemporary trend: the political harassment of public university professors by activists on the right and ...
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Neonicotinoid insecticide levels ‘well below’ those toxic to aquatic life in Canada, research shows

Robin Booker | 
A study into the presence of neonicotinoids in Canadian waterways suggests a ban or restriction of neonicotinoid seed treatments is ...
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Far more toxic than glyphosate: Copper sulfate, used by organic and conventional farmers, cruises to European reauthorization

Andrew Porterfield | 
Over the past months, the European Union and several member nations have vigorously debated re-authorizing glyphosate, the herbicide maligned by ...
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FDA puts clinical hold on Solid Biosciences’ gene therapy trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy over toxicity concerns

Alex Philippidis | 
The FDA has imposed a full clinical hold on Solid Biosciences’ Phase I/II trial for its lead candidate, the Duchenne ...
Viewpoint: Gene editing in humans should leave 'no room for suspicion' of 'closed door' research

Viewpoint: Gene editing in humans should leave ‘no room for suspicion’ of ‘closed door’ research

Mary Warnock | 
The Royal Society has recently published the results of an extensive survey of the attitudes of the general public to ...
Gene editing could all but end world's most serious livestock diseases

Gene editing could all but end world’s most serious livestock diseases

Hannah Devlin | 
Farming is poised for a gene editing revolution that could overcome some of the world’s most serious livestock diseases, the ...
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‘Solution for problem that doesn’t exist’? Australian politicians considering compensation fund to cover ‘contamination’ from GMO crops

Colin Bettles | 
THE lawyer who spearheaded Kojonup farmer Mike Baxter’s legal defence in the landmark legal test case over Genetically Modified (GM) ...
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Fertility quest: How technology has fueled quantum leaps

Carol Lynn Curchoe | 
Nanotech, artificial intelligence, wearables and biological engineering are among the new high tech ways to knock you up, stop your ...
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Golden Rice approved for sale to Canada but no plans for imports

In 2017, Health Canada received a submission to allow the sale of a variety of rice, called Provitamin A Biofortified ...
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Can Halo’s brain-zapping headsets improve athletic performance?

Kristen Brown | 
Equinox jumped at the chance to offer Halo Neuroscience’s brain-zapping, supposedly performance-enhancing headsets as part of its advanced personal training ...
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Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto hits US anti-trust snag

David McLaughlin | 
Bayer AG’s plan to win antitrust approval for its takeover of Monsanto Co. hasn’t satisfied U.S. officials who are worried ...
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More than 70% of UK public endorses human gene editing to treat disease

Scientists have been given a green light from members of the public to press ahead with developing gene editing therapies ...
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Monsanto glyphosate class action suit dealt another blow as judge says evidence of cancer link ‘pretty sparse’

Joel Rosenblatt | 
A lawsuit claiming Monsanto Co.’s popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer was dealt a blow by a judge’s conclusions that ...
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Should we worry about trace pesticides on fruits and vegetables?

Steve Savage | 
An anti-GMO funded study promoted by Vani Hari--Food Babe--that found parts per billion trace residues of the herbicide glyphosate in ...
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Sustainable AquaBounty GMO salmon, blocked in US, offers way out of ‘deadly spiral of overfishing’

Richard Martin | 
One day in 1992, a technology entrepreneur sat down for a meeting with a pair of biologists who were studying ...
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Lead authors of controversial homeopathic cancer paper arrested, work retracted

Andrew Masterson | 
A journal paper claiming to show the success of a homeopathic treatment for cancer has been withdrawn by the publishers ...
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Humanzee: Creating lab-produced human-chimpanzee hybrids would be ‘profoundly ethical’

David Barash | 
It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a ...
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Syngenta agrees to pay $1.5 billion over GMO corn fiasco in ‘largest agricultural suit settlement in US history”

Margaret Stafford | 
A $1.5 billion settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit covering tens of thousands of farmers, grain-handling facilities and ethanol ...
European Union court rules activists can challenge EU approval of GMOs

European Union court rules activists can challenge EU approval of GMOs

Barbara Leonard | 
Reviving a challenge to Monsanto’s marketing of food that contains genetically modified organisms, Europe’s highest court ruled [Maarch 14] that ...
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‘Regenerative agriculture’: With organic label losing value, this is vying to replace it

Alex Orlov | 
“Regenerative agriculture” is a bit of a mouthful compared to “organic,” but there’s a good reason why consumers should familiarize ...
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Viewpoint: GlaxoSmithKline abandonment of rare disease gene-therapy drug program because it’s not a money generator hurts children

Maria Kefalis | 
When GlaxoSmithKline, long a global leader in the effort to pioneer gene replacement therapies, announced it would halt its drug ...
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Viewpoint: California judge blocks spraying of citrus-killing Asian psyllid, courting disaster

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
“Judge Orders California Agriculture Officials to Cease Pesticide Use" ... The judge’s decision is so scary because he just indefinitely ...
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Counting on Trump: Approval of biotech animals may rely on circumventing FDA

Antonio Regalado | 
The lobbying effort to get the FDA out of the way of biotech animals is under way. ... [Recombinetics] is ...
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Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto conditionally approved in China

Bayer’s on [March 13] secured conditional approval from China’s commerce ministry for its planned acquisition of the world No. 1 seed ...
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