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Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation
Conquest, war, famine, and death: Looking back on 2022 as the COVID-19 plague roars into its fourth year, the Four Horsemen ...
Viewpoint: How to turn Biden’s bioeconomy pledge from a PR exercise into proactive policy
President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
Viewpoint: Bureaucracy building or real research and regulatory reform — Can Biden turn a proclamation to spur biotechnology innovation in health, energy and agriculture into actionable projects?
President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
Viewpoint: How biotechnology can make geopolitical food security upheavals less likely — Ukrainian War prompts global rethink about Europe’s reliance on ‘obsolete technologies’
Celebrated in symphonies, and storied in literature and cinema, the steppes of central Asia have long played a key role in the history ...
Protecting wild salmon and other aquatic species: Success of AquaAdvantage salmon shows sustainable aquaculture will lean heavily on advanced breeding and biotechnology
Wild salmon are in trouble worldwide. Many Pacific and Atlantic populations have disappeared or declined to record lows. But as we and a group of ...
Will human biases sink artificial intelligence (AI)?
You’ve probably heard the joke. Two campers see a bear approaching. One starts putting on her sneakers. The other asks: ...
Viewpoint: What regulatory and diplomatic steps are necessary to forge a transatlantic alliance promoting agricultural biotechnology innovation?
Mutual self-interest provides a strong basis for transatlantic cooperation in biotechnology based on shared recognition of its vast potential to ...
Viewpoint: FDA should crack down on food safety misinformation
[Editor's note: Val Giddings is a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The following is part of a letter ...
Scientists urge US Interior Department to lift ban on GMO seeds
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), one of the world’s top science and technology think tanks, along with a ...
Glyphosate toxicity study in ‘pay for play journal’ based on flawed experimental design
A study promoted by anti-GMO groups that the commonly used pesticide glyphosate (Roundup), which is used with some GM crops, ...
Are farmers around the world less eager to embrace crop biotechnology?
A recent report in Bloomberg suggested that crop biotechnology is not being embraced as eagerly in industrialized countries, but the ...
