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Viewpoint: Bayer ‘open for looting’ as company battles 11,000 glyphosate-cancer lawsuits

Wall Street Journal | 
The vagaries of American tort law were on display in San Francisco....as six jurors decided that Bayer AG is liable ...
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Many farmers endorse glyphosate as safe weed killer while Bayer battles Roundup-cancer lawsuits

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
Farmers are standing by Bayer AG’s Roundup herbicide despite rulings from two juries that the world’s most widely used weedkiller caused ...
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Viewpoint: USDA’s bioengineered food rules will confuse consumers and could cost $200 million per year

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created what may be the most bewildering, least cost-effective regulation ever. In July 2016, ...
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China’s approval of 5 GMO crop imports could fuel investment boom in biotech research

James Collins | Wall Street Journal | 
Lost in the news of contentious U.S.-China trade disputes was a meaningful regulatory approval that will improve agriculture around the ...
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Viewpoint: Psychology association’s new guidelines ‘demonize’ masculinity, ignore biology

Erica Komisar | Wall Street Journal | 
In my practice as a psychotherapist , I’ve seen an increase of depression in young men who feel emasculated in ...
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China’s decision to import next generation US-grown GMO herbicide-resistant crops will help American farmers struggling to fight hardy weeds

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
China’s approval of new genetically engineered crops will open a new front in U.S. farmers’ long-running war against hard-to-kill weeds ...
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Gene-edited animals could improve agricultural productivity. But could there be unintended consequences?

The purported birth [in November] of the world’s first gene-edited human babies .... spurred a wave of global outrage .... [T]he ...
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Announcing appeal of reaffirmed Roundup-cancer verdict, Bayer develops defense strategy of Monsanto’s flagship product

Bayer AG’s $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto .... made the German drug and chemicals company the world’s biggest supplier of crop seeds and ...
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‘Body on a chip’ could revolutionize drug research, replace animal testing

Mark Ellwood | Wall Street Journal | 
Bringing a new drug to market takes roughly a decade and requires expensive and arduous testing on humans and animals. But a ...
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What’s the difference between choosing healthy embryos and picking a baby’s eye color?

Amy Dockser Marcus | Wall Street Journal | 
Blair and James are trying to start a family. Like many parents, they hope their future offspring will be healthy ...
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Family DNA disease connection: How my breast cancer diagnosis saved my father from pancreatic cancer

Pamela Munster | Wall Street Journal | 
In April 2012, as I prepared to undergo a double mastectomy, it was [my grandma] Gertrud’s face that flashed before ...
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Can we afford gene therapy’s million-dollar price tags?

Sumathi Reddy | Wall Street Journal | 
[4-year-old] Caspian was born with a rare, inherited eye disorder called Leber congenital amaurosis, which results in the progressive deterioration ...
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Breast cancer is not ‘one size fits all’: Obesity, alcohol use, inactivity exacerbate risk

Laura Landro | Wall Street Journal | 
A regular mammogram isn’t enough to battle breast cancer anymore. Researchers have found that a third of breast cancer cases ...
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Video: Meet the gene-edited cows that could revolutionize beef production

Jason Bellini | Wall Street Journal | 
On July 14, 2018 Genzelle, an Angus calf genetically engineered to withstand Brazil's high summer temperatures, was born. Cows like ...
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Are you an expert or novice? Brain scans can tell the difference

Daniela Hernandez | Wall Street Journal | 
To gain new insight into how highly specialized workers learn skills or react to stressful situations, researchers are leveraging advanced ...
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North American trade deal includes ‘science-based’ gene editing regulations

Jacob Bunge | Wall Street Journal | 
Farmers and agribusinesses welcomed the agreement on a new North American trade pact, easing fears that the Trump administration’s tough ...
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Bayer asks judge to toss ‘flimsy’ $289 million glyphosate-cancer verdict

Jacob Bunge, Ruth Bender | Wall Street Journal | 
Bayer on [September 18th] said it wants a California state court judge to overturn the jury’s verdict, order a new ...
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Seeking a new path for FDA regulation of revolutionary medical treatments

Researchers are developing therapies that could permanently alter a patient’s genes... . The early results are promising. Patients would live ...
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Viewpoint: FDA gives organic food marketers a pass on deceptive labeling—at consumer expense

Henry Miller | Wall Street Journal | 
[W]hen it comes to the $47-billion-a-year organic industry, the FDA gives a complete pass to blatantly false and deceptive advertising ...
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Déjà vu all over again: Germany’s ‘regulatory stranglehold’ on New Breeding Techniques mirrors its policy on GMOs 20 years ago

Henry Miller | Wall Street Journal | 
Biotechnology applied to agriculture is beginning to yield all manner of products, including fruits and vegetables that are disease-resistant, more ...
Viewpoint: The 4 Ps threaten bee health—parasites, poor nutrition, pathogens and pesticides

Viewpoint: The 4 Ps threaten bee health—parasites, poor nutrition, pathogens and pesticides

Thor Hanson | Wall Street Journal | 
Experts believe that multiple factors must be at play in the bees’ plight. The main suspects are referred to as ...
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Parents of acutely ill newborns find answers through DNA sequencing

Dana Linden | Wall Street Journal | 
Hope for [children with rare genetic diseases] and their families may be coming in the form of DNA sequencing, or ...
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Video: Can CRISPR gene editing help solve world’s food and farming challenges?

Wall Street Journal | 
A research team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is developing higher-yielding tomato plants with a gene-editing tool called Crispr-Cas9. Are ...
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China seeks to dislodge US dominance in CRISPR gene-edited crops

China is seeking a lead in editing plant genes, potentially shifting the epicenter of the emerging agricultural technology toward the ...
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How does the science of Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ stand up more than 50 years later?

Charles Mann | Wall Street Journal | 
Carson’s detractors accuse her of misrepresenting the science. Wrong: Carson wrote that pesticides and herbicides disorder ecosystems because they kill ...
'Will people eat it?': The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

‘Will people eat it?’: The public opinion battle over CRISPR gene-edited food is just beginning

Zachary Lippman, a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, stood among 2 acres of his experimental crops, including some ...
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US tentatively approves Bayer’s $62.5 billion takeover of Monsanto

The Justice Department has decided to allow BayerAG’s megadeal to acquire Monsanto Co., valued at more than $60 billion, after the ...
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Friendlier regulations fuel China’s lead in human gene-editing race

In a hospital west of Shanghai, Wu Shixiu since March has been trying to treat cancer patients using a promising ...
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