Science Controversies
Consumers willing to pay premium for organics, but benefits mostly psychological
Consumers buying organic food based on a certified label believe they are getting a product guaranteed to be healthier or ...
Who’s who? ‘David and Goliath’ roles mixed up in West Australian Marsh v Baxter case
In West Australia's landmark GMO battle, Steve Marsh's supporters portrayed him as David, the lone organic farmer about to lose ...
Fungi genes may be key to higher crop yields
Ian Sanders wants to feed the world. A soft-spoken Brit, Sanders studies fungus genetics in a lab at the University ...
Privacy, security concerns still not resolved in for large scale genome sequencing
Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data. Genetic ...
Oregon maps GM crop fields to establish system for coexistence
Before residents in southern Oregon overwhelmingly voted to ban genetically modified crops last month, farmers negotiated for months with a ...
United Kingdom could see GM crops in fields next year under new proposal
The European Union Environment Council have voted yes on a proposal that could see GM crops planted in U.K. fields ...
Most responsible, sustainable agricultural system is hybrid of organic, conventional and GMO
Amy Hepworth, an organic farmer in New York’s Hudson Valley, also believes in the importance of soil health and working ...
Audio: What if agriculture didn’t have biotechnology?
Another day, another petition pushing for a ban of biotechnology in a region. The latest that crossed my desk is ...
Ben & Jerry’s goes GMO-free, say goodbye to “Coffee Heath Bar Crunch”
What's rolling off the production line in St. Albans is an old flavor with a new name and new ingredients ...
Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio calls for GMO labeling in New York
A consumer goes to the produce aisle in the supermarket and sees five displays of strawberries. The first is labeled ...
Personalized vaccines treat kidney cancer
A highly personalized medical technique is allowing patients with advanced kidney cancer to live nearly three times as long as ...
Year after Myriad’s breast cancer test patent monopoly broken, data collection explodes
When the US diagnostics giant Myriad Genetics had its legal monopoly on breast-cancer gene testing eliminated one year ago, the ...
After decade of controversy, fetal stem cells reemerge as Parkison’s treatment target
A neurosurgery team will next month transplant cells from aborted human fetuses into the brain of a person with Parkinson’s ...
US grocers sue Vermont over GMO labeling law citing First Amendment
Four organizations filed suit against the state of Vermont for Act 120, which requires food manufacturers to label products that ...
India’s intelligence agency says Greenpeace’s anti-GMO campaign damages economy
India's domestic spy service has accused Greenpeace and other lobby groups of hurting economic progress by campaigning against power projects, ...
Individual European Union states allowed to bar GM crops even if cleared as safe and healthy
The European Union will allow member countries to make their own decisions on growing genetically modified (GM) food in a ...
Proposed anti-GMO bill in Kauai, Hawaii targets agricultural innovation and research
Large agriculture companies and landowners are opposing a bill that would establish “agronomics” as a new and separate real property ...
Label food, but do it right: Scare-based labels hurt everybody
In early May, Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill into law that requires a label for any foods produced ...
Moving past GMO debate: Monsanto executive, organic farmer and anti-industrialist activist agree on future for agriculture
In the days leading up to a panel discussion on GMOs put on by Climate One, I started getting nervous. I was slated ...
Genetically modified lab-created kale-Brussel sprouts Kalettes embraced by anti-GMO foodies
A new vegetable is coming to the U.S. this fall: a cross between kale and Brussel sprouts, dubbed Kalettes. It's ...
Cure for HIV? New gene-editing technique shows promise
A few lucky individuals have a mutation that makes them highly resistant to HIV. This mutation is also behind the ...
China cracks down against illegal GM crop testing at corporations and research centers
The continued illegal sale of genetically modified (GM) food in parts of China has prompted the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) ...
Is GM corn leading to overuse of insecticides as pests develop resistance?
Whether the return to pesticide use makes sense, or is simply spurred by a chemical industry marketing campaign, is at ...
Western Australia GM research facility faces safety scrutiny
When the multi-million dollar GM research station was opened in 2011 in Merredin, 300 kilometres east of Perth, it boasted ...
How biotech corn transformed the lives of Filipino farmers
Ryan Lising, 39, has lived all his life in a farming community in Mandani, Magalang, Pampanga, one of seven provinces ...
GM and organic crops need not be separate in food debate to achieve best outcome in feeding world’s hungry
Given its centrality to our existence and lifestyle, it is unsurprising that the different ways in which food can be ...
GM mosquito breakthrough: Make them all males
Scientists have hailed the genetic modification of mosquitoes that could crash the insect’s populations as a “quantum leap” that will ...
