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Capturing a glimpse of how CRISPR could help agriculture by removing allergens and boosting nutritional quality
In a lab at George Washington University, painted lady butterflies flutter in mesh houses. This is where assistant professor Arnault ...
Sugar beet farmers worry USDA will require GMO label despite ‘molecularly identical’ product
Colorado farmer Steve Kelly brushes aside a small mound of dry yellow dirt to reveal a sugar beet seed that’s ...
Are crop innovations sitting on shelf because of outdated GMO laws?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting a new genetically ...
Lawsuits against Syngenta’s GMO corn could become class action suit
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hundreds of lawsuits against seed company ...
Researchers use gene editing to create pig resistant to incurable porcine disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Tucked away in a ...
Developing generic GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After the patent on ...
After cancer assessment of farm chemicals, farmers still comfortable with using herbicides
Farmers count on chemical herbicides to keep their fields weed-free. In the last few months though, scientists brought together by ...
Cattle breeders develop genetically superior embryos for countries with less productive cows
Cows, like humans, take about nine months to carry a calf to term. But in the 1970s, American cattlemen began ...
