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GMO crops may help keep arsenic out of India’s food supply
An Indian scientist in the UK is working on a way to grow crops in arsenic contaminated soil, a study ...
Indian official: Insect-resistant GMO cotton has increased production, decreased pesticide use
The production of cotton in the country has nearly doubled since the introduction of Bt cotton in 2002, the government ...
In India, Nobel laureate biochemist Richard Roberts calls for politicians to listen to scientists—not activists—on GMOs
UK-based scientist Richard J Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology in 1993, criticised the "anti-GMO people" ... and ...
India may be forced to import more food if it doesn’t adopt biotech crops to increase yields
India is not keeping pace with its peers like China in adopting innovative farm technologies, especially biotechnology, a US embassy ...
India’s environment minister claims ‘natural farming always better’ than GMOs
Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has stuck a note of caution over using genetically modified crops, saying one particular scientific ...
New genetic factors in Parkinson’s found
WASHINGTON: Scientists have identified more than two dozen genetic risk factors involved in Parkinson's disease, including six that had not ...
Gene linked to low IQ in kids discovered
Scientists have identified a gene variant that is strongly linked to low IQ in kids. The research, led by Peter ...
India’s Ag Minister: No credible reports that GM crops harmful
There are no “credible scientific reports” to prove that genetically modified (GM) crops have adverse impact on environment, human health ...