China
Skeptical meat eaters and complex regulations could slow Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat expansion into China
Over the last couple of years, Impossible Foods and its main rival, Beyond Meat, have gone from start-ups with niche ...
Rapid genetic sequencing marks key step in China’s efforts to contain mysterious new viral outbreak
Chinese scientists have recovered a previously unknown virus from an infected individual and generated a full genetic sequence of it, ...
China poised to approve 192 GMO crops, including insect-resistant, glyphosate-tolerant corn
China is set to award safety certificates for genetically-modified corn, paving the way for domestic production as the world’s most-populous ...
CRISPR immunizes rice against multiple diseases, preserving crop yields and biodiversity
Scientists from China National Rice Research Institute used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit Semi-Dwarf1 (SD1) in elite Chinese rice varieties, which has ...
China may balk at announced purchase of $50 billion in US crops
China ramping up agricultural purchases to the level that the U.S. is demanding would be a problem and Beijing would ...
‘Mini-trade deal’ between US, China expected to ease Chinese restrictions on GMO crops
President Donald Trump has signed off on a mini-trade deal with China, four people familiar with the negotiations said on ...
Consumer skepticism of plant-based meat could slow Impossible Foods’ expansion into Asia
If the American fake-meat darlings Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have their way, chef Raymond Xie will soon be able ...
Should parents be allowed to choose a child’s sexual orientation through gene editing?
Where do our sexual preferences come from? Most of us don’t stop to ponder, simply because there’s no need to ...
Brave new world? Why the public might be ready for gene-edited babies
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9 are rapidly bringing the possibilities forward ...
Excerpts from unpublished paper reveal ‘damning’ details suggesting controversial CRISPR babies’ experiment went awry
Titled “Birth of Twins After Genome Editing for HIV Resistance,” and 4,699 words long, the still unpublished paper was authored ...
China wants to use DNA to map faces. Is it a technology for ‘hunting people’?
Chinese scientists are trying to find a way to use a DNA sample to create an image of a person’s ...
CRISPR-edited pigs could blunt swine fever epidemic threatening China’s food supply
Inside a fortresslike megafarm on the outskirts of Beijing, dozens of pink and black pigs forage and snooze, unfazed by ...
China cleaning up 25 million acres of polluted farmland to meet soaring food demand
China has shut more than 1,300 heavy metal enterprises since 2016 as part of a long-term plan to curb widespread ...
China’s new Alzheimer drug greeted with ‘surprise and skepticism’ by researchers
China’s approval of the drug oligomannate earlier this month for treating mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease has been met with surprise and ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat success spurs Chinese firms to develop plant-based meats
While China is no stranger to food using vegetarian ingredients to give a meat-like flavor, the buzz around Beyond Meat ...
Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods eye 2020 expansion into China as plant-based meat market approaches $140 billion
Beyond Meat Inc aims to start production in Asia before the end of next year, as it gets closer to ...
Viewpoint: Developing countries need GMO, gene-edited crops to solve food security challenges
With a ballooning population and climate change, genetic engineering is needed now more than ever ...
Delayed GMO Bt rice approval costs China $12 billion annually, study finds
To maintain self-sufficiency in rice production and national food security, the Chinese government strongly supports research that aims at increasing ...
CRISPR pigs can survive deadly disease, but regulatory uncertainty slows development
Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques such as Crispr-Cas9 will enable scientists to make precise genetic changes to pig physiology, they say, leading ...
Distrust in government, biotech literacy dictate public opinion on GMO crops in China, survey shows
This paper analyzes the awareness and attitudes of the Chinese public toward genetically modified (GM) foods with different types of ...
Meet Garlic, China’s first ever cloned cat
Devastated by the death of his previous cat, Garlic, Huang [Yu] sought the services of biotechnology company Sinogene. The Beijing-based ...
‘Sputnik 2.0’: China wants to lead the world in CRISPR research
China is seeing an explosion in CRISPR-based animal studies and embracing the gene-editing technology with unrivaled zest and zeal—so much ...
Why China’s willingness to push ethical boundaries with CRISPR research ‘could end up benefiting us all’
Today, [China] serves as the global center for CRISPR animal experiments, with its scientists being the first to use the ...
Human-monkey chimeras created in China in quest to grow transplantable human organs
An international team of researchers has created embryos containing both human and monkey cells, the Spanish newspaper El País reported July ...
‘Brute-force approach’ to CRISPR innovation: China stakes out global leadership role developing medical treatments, transplantable organs, quality meat
China now has at least four groups of CRISPR researchers doing gene editing with large colonies of monkeys. “The most ...
China’s multi-billion-dollar investment in CRISPR could help feed its ‘massive’ population
[Cell biologist Gao Caixia] is one face of the Chinese government’s bet that CRISPR can transform the country’s food supply ...
Where is China’s third CRISPR baby and what does it mean for the genetics revolution?
Last November, Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui shocked the world by announcing that the word’s first gene edited human babies, two ...
