CRISPR
5 ways CRISPR-engineered animals can help combat climate change
Climate change is a man-made problem, but humans aren’t the only animals that will be impacted by warming temperatures and ...
EU officials open to ‘science-based’ decision making on CRISPR crops, USDA’s Sonny Perdue says
When it comes to food, EU policymakers should make science-based decisions if they want to help European their farmers tackle ...
Video: Biotech firm Syngenta defends GMO crops, Impossible Burger as climate change mitigation tools
Syngenta Chief Executive Officer Erik Fyrwald discusses the need to help farmers adapt to climate change, genetically-modified food and the ...
Viewpoint: India’s proposed CRISPR crop rules could ‘severely constrain’ gene-editing innovation
At long last, [India's] Department of Biotechnology has [published] draft genome editing guidelines on January 9 for month-long public comments ...
GLP’s Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker and Index: Will politicians embrace innovation or fear?
We hope this gene editing regulation tracker and index will encourage science-based scrutiny and advocacy ...
More science education may not quell consumer fear of GMO, gene-edited crops, Japanese study suggests
A team of researchers [in Japan] conducted a survey to explore the opinions and attitudes of both Japanese experts and ...
Post-Brexit UK will follow EU GMO, gene-edited crop rules, but long-term regulatory divergence still possible
On 1 February, responsibility for approving novel foods passes from the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) to the UK Food ...
Biotech industry aims to avoid backlash from GMO-wary consumers as CRISPR-edited crops near mass commercialization
The biotechnology industry wants to avoid repeating mistakes with gene editing that it made nearly three decades ago with transgenic ...
CRISPR immunizes chickens against deadly virus, potentially boosting global egg and meat production
CRISPR genome editing has been used to make chickens resistant to a common virus. The approach could boost egg and ...
GMO, gene-edited crops face uncertain future in UK despite post-Brexit hopes for relaxed biotech rules
Growing and selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is permitted in the UK but GMO products are subject to a lengthy ...
Developing a ‘kill switch’ to make CRISPR gene editing more precise—and safer
[Microbiologists] stumbled onto tools now known as anti-CRISPRs. These proteins serve as the rocks to CRISPR’s molecular scissors. And soon, ...
Oil from CRISPR-edited Camelina plants could be fast-tracked for commercialization following USDA approval
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. [Jan. 16] announced that it has submitted an “Am I Regulated?” letter to USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services ...
Improved seeds key to sustainable food security, African plant breeders say
Strategies now being rolled out to ensure food security on the African continent are unsustainable, according to the African Plant ...
Viewpoint: ‘Archaic’ FDA regulation hinders animal gene-editing innovation
Around the world, countries are experimenting, implementing, and – importantly – properly regulating gene editing in livestock. China has been ...
We have the power to wipe out mosquitoes and malaria—but is that a good idea?
Gene drives have yet to be tested outside the lab, and even the most developed project to date — the ...
CRISPR gene editing yields corn resistant to widely used sulfonylurea herbicide, study shows
Researchers from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other institutions reported precise based editing of maize genes using CRISPR-Cas9, leading ...
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam explains how the CRISPR gene editing ‘revolution’ can improve our food
The final instalment of Technology Networks Explores the CRISPR Revolution is an interview with Dr Alison Van Eenennaam, a livestock ...
CRISPR-edited crops reveal gene responsible for salt tolerance in rice
Scientists from China National Rice Research Institute reported that FLN2, a gene that encodes fructokinase-like protein2, influences sugar metabolism as ...
Want consumers to embrace CRISPR? Don’t call it a gene-editing ‘revolution,’ explain its agricultural benefits
How can you talk to consumers about gene editing when most have little understanding of how plants are bred? The ...
Genetically engineered poplar trees slash air pollution in 3-year field trial
Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that poplar trees can be genetically modified to reduce negative impacts on ...
Why it’s so difficult for human embryos to survive CRISPR gene editing
CRISPR may one day wipe out devastating genetic diseases throughout entire family lines, or even the human race. But to ...
Skepticism of GMOs, CRISPR won’t slow crop biotech innovation, biologist predicts
Genetically modified crops have the potential, if widely adopted, to help feed the world and vastly change the crop input ...
Viewpoint: In 100 years, we’ll be honoring controversial CRISPR scientist He Jiankui
When I saw the news that He Jiankui and colleagues had been sentenced to three years in prison for the first human ...
Five ways CRISPR plants can combat climate change
Plants occupy a unique nexus when it comes to climate change. On the one hand, they can help prevent climate ...
2019 offered ‘eclectic’ mix of potentially breakthrough treatments for genetic diseases, from cystic fibrosis to sickle cell
2019 was a very good year for new treatments of genetic diseases ...
Would the US prosecute a rogue scientist like China’s He Jiankui who illegally gene edited an embryo?
13 months after He Jiankui announced that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies, the Chinese scientist was sentenced to ...
Viewpoint: We need ‘public buy-in’ before moving forward on human gene editing
In response to [China's controversial CRISPR babies], the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the Chinese Academies of ...
