CRISPR
New breeding techniques can boost food security in Africa, report finds
New breeding techniques can help Africa meet its food security and industrial needs while improving farmer livelihoods, according to a ...
One year after EU decision to regulate CRISPR crops as GMOs, 120 research institutions call for updated plant breeding rules
Scientists from 120 European research institutions support an open statement [arguing] that crops created using gene-editing techniques should not be ...
Viewpoint: There will be no crop biotech revolution unless scientists, consumers learn to talk to each other
It is imperative that scientists bridge the gap and enable an open, global dialogue so that all are informed ...
Short on time, US regulators scramble to streamline CRISPR-edited plant, animal rules
All three of the federal agencies charged with regulating bioengineered plants and animals are looking at ways of streamlining regulations ...
EU food-testing labs must track unapproved CRISPR crop imports—but there’s no easy way to do it
A landmark European court ruling that made gene-edited crops subject to the same stringent regulations as other genetically modified organisms ...
Viewpoint: Why CRISPR-edited crops should be allowed in organic agriculture
A University of California, Berkeley professor stands at the front of the room, delivering her invited talk about the potential ...
GMO scare 2.0? ‘Arduous’ regulation may increase public distrust of CRISPR-edited crops
Modern biotechnology (transgenesis and gene editing) helps achieve an increase in food production without the need for more land area for agriculture ...
Viewpoint: We need GMO, CRISPR-edited crops to help feed 10 billion people
If we want to feed 10 billion people by 2050, in a world beset by rising temperatures and scarcer water ...
Podcast: Land use for animal agriculture has declined 140 million hectares since 2000. Can we keep this ‘livestock revolution’ alive?
We're often told raising animals for food takes a devastating toll on the environment, consuming ever more natural resources, hastening ...
What can CRISPR do for agriculture? Deep dive into crop gene editing’s sustainable future
CRISPR is often thought of as "molecular scissors" used for precision breeding to cut DNA so that a certain trait ...
Infographic: Here’s how gene drives would fight mosquitos, malaria
Gene drives have rapidly become a routine technology in some laboratories; scientists can now whip up a drive in months ...
CRISPR used to cure HIV in mice. Will it lead to new treatments for humans?
Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early ...
CRISPR immunizes potato against plant viruses, cutting production costs of globally important food crop
Society and the legislative authorities are often cynical about the presence of [transgenes] in GMOs. However, more advanced plant breeding ...
Will China tell the world about its third controversial CRISPR baby?
The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong last November, was meant to debate the pros ...
Viewpoint: FDA’s CRISPR-edited animal rules threaten US farming innovation
“Keep America First in Agriculture” was launched June 25 by the National Pork Producers Council, stressing the need for establishing ...
FDA rejects call for USDA takeover of CRISPR gene-edited animal regulation
The Food and Drug Administration is standing its ground in the latest battle over its regulatory turf, warning livestock groups ...
Should CRISPR be used to resurrect passenger pigeons, woolly mammoths and other extinct species?
The planet is getting warmer, we're poisoning insect populations with reckless abandon and pulling fish out of the ocean at ...
CRISPR gene edited soybeans suited for hotter climates offer ‘enormous’ crop yield boost
Chinese agricultural scientists using gene-editing technology have created new soybean mutants, which could lead to soybean crops in much warmer ...
African cassava mosaic virus poses serious threat to food security. Is CRISPR gene editing the answer?
.... African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) has been linked to famine and indirectly to the deaths of thousands of people ...
Podcast: Could domesticated bacteria help break our dependence on fossil fuels?
Microbes surround us and enhance our lives in almost innumerable ways. These helpful micro-machines catalyze key reactions required to produce ...
Why CRISPR patents matter to a world worried about designer babies, rogue scientists and curing disease
In the midst of widespread disapproval of creating “designer babies,” fear of rogue scientists editing the genome of future generations, ...
Scientific, social and ethical barriers must be overcome before the world is ready for CRISPR babies, researchers say
Nature asked researchers and other stakeholders what hurdles remain before heritable gene editing could become acceptable as a clinical tool ...
Podcast: Talking CRISPR with controversial biohacker Josiah Zayner
Is biohacking a crime? Who came up with the latest CRISPR trick? And did Rage Against the Machine sell out? ...
Like it or not, the ‘Pandora’s box’ of gene-edited babies has been opened
Denis Rebrikov is the head of a genome-editing laboratory at the Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Russia’s largest ...
Video: Tech guru and author Rob Reid on synthetic biology’s power to help or destroy us
In 2011, two separate research teams—one in Holland, the other in Wisconsin—set out to repair this "defect" in H5N1. By ...
Low trust in government tech regulation fuels consumer doubt about GMOs, gene editing
Trust in governance is at an all-time low. Experts trace a first major decline in trust back to the 1970s, ...
The first gene-edited soybean opens door to a slew of new CRISPR foods
The number of crop gene-editing projects underway around the world is astonishing ...
