Trends in Biotechnology
Viewpoint: Here’s why almost all international agricultural biotechnology regulatory structures are a scientific mess, and what reforms are needed
Inappropriate and often politicized regulations in many countries have limited the global benefits of agricultural biotechnology. The Cartagena Protocol on ...
Viewpoint: 50 years after Asilomar set a fractured framework for regulating agricultural genetic enginnering, it’s time to embrace the technology’s full potential
Fifty years ago, scientists developed a regulatory framework for the safe use of recombinant DNA that focused on potential biosafety ...
China could crack down on fall armyworm pest invasion with GMO insect-resistant Bt corn
Due to its wide host range, high reproductive and dispersal capacity, the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), which ...
CRISPR gene editing could improve crops, animals in Sub-Saharan Africa, but public education is key
.... (CRISPR) technology has enabled genetic engineering feats previously considered impracticable, offering great hopes for solutions to problems facing society ...
Post-modernism fans world-wide skepticism of modern technology, endangering biotech revolution
[Editor's note: Marcel Kuntz is Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)] Postmodernism is an ...
Will ‘genetically edited” crops diffuse the opposition to GMOs?
Recent advances in precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be genetically improved ...