Should government financed DNA research be practical or theoretical?

Adam Smith | Guardian |
Scientific breakthroughs like Jeffreys's exemplify what is known in modern science as "impact". This contentious concept tiptoes along the intersection ...

GM foods: Science and society

Guardian |
Last weekend protesters gathered at Rothamsted Research, north of London, threatening to destroy a field of genetically modified wheat. In ...

Is addiction genetic?

Tanya Gold | Guardian |
Is addiction a moral defect, a mental illness or a party trick gone wrong? Two events, a policy and a ...

Police keep anti-GM protestors in UK from destroying wheat crop

Shiv Malik | Guardian |
Police kept hundreds of protesters at bay as they attempted to destroy a field where genetically modified wheat is being ...

The GM scientists’ risky strategy that won public support

Ian Sample | Guardian |
The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, ...

French ban of Monsanto GM maize rejected by EU

Adam Vaughan | Guardian |
France's attempt to ban the planting of a Monsanto strain of genetically modified maize was rejected by the EU's food ...

India loses faith in GM cotton

Julien Bouissou | Guardian |
Ten years after it was introduced to India, genetically modified cotton is not living up to its promise. It is ...
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A chance to move the GM debate on

Ian Sample | Guardian |
Will something come of it after all? On Tuesday, crop scientists at one of Britain's leading agricultural centres pleaded with ...

Balancing needs and fears in the GM crop debate

Guardian |
On Wednesday's Today programme a spokesman for the Rothamsted biologists doing the "urging" (Scientists send video plea to anti-GM crop ...