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Gene-edited crops and animals: Best-kept secrets in the fight against climate change

David Hart, Robert Rozansky, Val Giddings | 
Advances in gene editing over the past decade have given scientists new tools to tailor the biochemistry of nearly any ...
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CRISPR could help protect Atlantic salmon from sea lice, reducing need for harsh chemical treatments

Robert Outram | 
Researchers at Norwegian institute Nofima are investigating whether gene editing could provide an answer to the problem of sea lice ...
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Viewpoint: Rush to develop COVID vaccine highlights failure of Europe’s GM crop regulations

Stuart Smyth | 
In a recent article of mine published in the journal, Global Food Security, I highlight the EU’s reluctance to move ...
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EU agriculture ministers back pro-organic Farm 2 Fork plan, but support gene editing to boost sustainable food production

Florin Zubașcu | 
The EU should make use of innovative breeding technologies to boost sustainability of food production, agriculture ministers agreed on [October ...
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Gene-edited crops approved by USDA jumps from 7 to 70 between 2019 and 2020

Melody Bomgardner | 
Signaling progress for a new kind of crop engineering, the biotech crop trait firm Cibus says it will move forward ...
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Analysis: Problematic provisions in new USDA rule for GE plants

Greg Jaffe | 
Over the last three months, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published materials and conducted webinar presentations to ...
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Philippines poised to embrace gene-edited animals? Lawmakers debate rules for ‘safe’ use of modern biotech

Charissa Luci-Atienza | 
Masbate Rep. Elisa “Olga” Kho has cited the importance of animal biotechnology in improving the health and welfare of animals ...
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Viewpoint: Greenpeace-funded study backfires, undermining case to treat gene-edited crops as GMOs

Mary Mangan | 
The anti-GMO movement dominated the public discourse about crop biotechnology for decades. Led by committed activists who knew how to ...
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Plant-breeding tool leaps major hurdle to enhancing more crops with CRISPR gene editing

Researchers know how to make precise genetic changes within the genomes of crops, but the transformed cells often refuse to ...
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Viewpoint: CRISPR pioneers awarded Nobel Prize. Will EU embrace the technology to boost food production?

Caroline van der Plas | 
CRISPR-Cas, the technique with which DNA in cells can be cut with ‘genetic scissors,’ has been awarded the Nobel Prize ...
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CRISPR-edited poplar trees could cut carbon emissions during paper production

Researchers led by prof. Wout Boerjan (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) have discovered a way to stably finetune the ...
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Gene-edited plants and animals: Our secret weapons in the battle to slow climate change?

Emily Mullin | 
Nearly 200 nations signed on to the Paris Agreement in 2016, pledging to reduce their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions. By ...
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Colombian anti-biotech groups losing on two fronts? Push for GMO ban slows, while government green lights first gene-edited crop

Sherly Montaguth | 
Editor's note: The author of this story has informed the GLP that new information has come to light, and asked ...
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‘Brussels Effect’: Europe’s CRISPR crop rules may have ‘costly’ international economic impacts

Justus Wesseler, Kai Purnhagen | 
The CJEU decision of July 2018 has far‐reaching economic implications, given that products derived through the application of NPBTs are ...
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Viewpoint: International anti-GMO groups wage PR war to get gene-edited crops out of Latin America

Luis Ventura | 
Imagine for a moment that you're a farmer. Genetically modified crops that could help you protect your yields from voracious ...
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GMO and gene-edited biofortified crops weaken case for organic agriculture

Steven Cerier | 
A new lineup of GMO and gene-edited crops with nutrient content organic growers simply can't replicate ...
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Replacing fossil fuels? Gene-edited algae could help cut biodiesel production costs

Hiroshima University researchers developed a highly efficient genome editing system for microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica, which is a potential source of ...
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52% of UK consumers say farmers should have access to gene-edited crops, survey finds

The public have highlighted their worry over the fragility of the food system in the face of Covid-19, climate change ...
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Podcast: Greenpeace CRISPR study debunked; Public accepts gene-edited babies? Cancer vaccine progress

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A Greenpeace-funded study alleges that gene-edited crops can be detected and should therefore be regulated as "GMOs." However, experts say ...
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CRISPR bacon: Disease-resistant pigs could save pork producers billions of dollars annually

Wang Xiaodong | 
Chinese scientists have produced a pig species that can resist three major infectious diseases plaguing the animal using gene-editing technology, ...
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Gene-edited, blight-resistant rice approved by USDA, Colombian regulators

Ximena Gonzalez | 
The Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have approved a genetically edited rice resistant ...
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Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

R. Ford Denison | 
Everyone has heard of the nutrient, nitrogen, but why is it important to plants? It's a key ingredient in proteins, ...
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Promoting CRISPR crops at the expense of GMOs is short-sighted when we need both

Hope Henderson, Kevin Doxzen | 
With an ever-growing CRISPR genome-editing toolbox, scientists are creating crops that can resist diseases and pests, withstand global warming, and ...
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Can gene-edited crops be ‘detected’? Claims by Greenpeace and anti-biotech activists dismissed by safety officials, scientists

Klaus Strotmann | 
A joint report by several NGOs caused a stir on September 7th by claiming that [gene editing] was now detectable ...
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Hangover free wine? CRISPR gene editing could produce new varietals and disease-resistant grapes

Gene editing offers a new tool for wine grape growers, who have for decades grappled with troublesome pests, high pesticide ...
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Relaxed gene-edited crop rules will give farmers more chemical-free pest control tools, EPA says

Britt Erickson | 
Developers of genetically engineered crops would have an easier time getting their products onto the US market under a proposed ...
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