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US security report: China’s efforts to acheive food security seen as threat to steal crop biotechnology innovations and weaponize gene-editing tools
China’s efforts to achieve food security represent a threat to the US, according to an American federal agency focused on ...
Putin pledges to make Russia world’s largest supplier of GMO-free food
The recent boost in Russian agriculture has made food sales abroad much more profitable for the country than exports of ...
Chinese man receives 3 year jail sentence for stealing GMO corn trade secrets
A Chinese man will spend three years in prison for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto ...
Russian scientists ask for partial lifting of GMO production ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Russian Academy of Sciences ...
Survivors of WWII Leningrad siege had superior metabolism, genetic analysis suggests
Analysis of the genome structure of Leningrad siege survivors and their contemporaries has allowed Russian scientists to spot specific DNA ...
Protesters March Against Monsanto in over 400 cities around the world
Thousands of people across the world have joined together in a global movement, protesting against American biotech giant Monsanto. Activists ...
Russia’s Putin interested in cloning mammoth
Upon meeting a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy in a museum in the Russian Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered if ...
Russia approves heavy fines for violation of GMO labeling rules
The Russian cabinet has approved the bill introducing heavy fines for businessmen who violate the rules on obligatory marking of ...
Chile fights GMO in national protest against ‘Monsanto law’
Thousands of Chileans have rallied against a bill dubbed the “Monsanto law” that would let multinationals patent GMO seeds. Activists ...
Monsanto’s SmartStax maize ‘to be approved for growth in October’ in EU
A controversial, genetically modified super-maize from Monsanto is set to be approved for cultivation across the European Union by late ...
Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries
An international protest planned for later this month against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include ...
French Prime Minister maintains ban on GM crops
France will uphold a ban on genetically modified crops as President Francois Hollande pushes his plan to put the environment ...
Congress sides with Monsanto over GMO battle
Biotech giants Monsanto were awarded a victory by lawmakers in Washington this week after a congressional panel voted to let ...