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The impatient optimism of GM crops and food security
Are GM crops needed to feed the world? That's not the right question to ask ...
GMOs cause leukemia? Think again
The following article is an edited excerpt. The Organic Consumers Association has gleefully announced: New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia. The ...
Breakthrough GE potato doesn’t brown or produce potentially carcinogenic compound
Biofortified interviews the man behind a new genetically engineered potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried nor make acrylamide, ...
How to recognize questionable information about genetically modified organisms
A genomics scientists helps lay readers separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to GMO misinformation ...
Is it OK to eat cloned fruit?
The following is an excerpt. Cloned fruit is widely sold in grocery stores. Some of it is even cloned mutant ...
Video: Interview with CEO of AquaBounty
The following is an excerpt. Karl Haro von Mogel from Biology Fortified interviewed Ron Stonish, President and CEO of AquaBounty at the 2013 ...
When a tomato is a just tomato
The following is an excerpt. Another paper comparing organic and conventional tomatoes (sort of) was published in PLOS One on ...
Seeds without sex – some racy findings on the cloning of plants
The following is an excerpt. Sex without seed. Seed without sex. It’s been said that the greatest gift of science ...
Do we need synthetic fertilizers?
The following is an excerpt. According to organic advocates Tom Philpott and Barry Estabrook, we don’t need synthetic fertilizers at all. Both argue ...
Pest resistance to Bt crops
The following is an excerpt. The issue of pest resistance to insect resistant Bt crops receives regular media attention, partly ...
GMO labeling initiatives: Prop 37 v. I-522
The Biofortified blog takes an in-depth look at the Washington State initiative to label GMOs ...
Biology Fortified proposes a wiki for GMOs
The following is an excerpt. Today there may be the kind of critical mass necessary to move [a GMO wiki ...
Can the damage from agenda-driven junk science be undone?
But can the damage from the Seralini corn study be undone? It is far more probable that this “cancer link” ...
What does Prop 37 actually say?
Unfortunately, as with any political debate these days, there’s a lot of mud slinging and less than accurate information coming ...
Both sides of Prop. 37 debate guilty of misleading voters
The No on 37 campaign used misused the FDA seal to make them seem in favor of their cause; the ...
We’re all wearing the same genes
We're all wearing the same genesBiofortifiedWhile the similarities between organisms were originally determined by examining physical characteristics from bones to ...
GMO crops: To label or not to label?
This fall, California voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 37, a law which would require that all foods ...
Orange sweet potatos and golden rice: Biofortified foods in Africa
One of the important ways that plant scientists are working to improve the lives of malnourished people in developing countries ...
