Gene Editing
Relaxed gene-edited crop rules will give farmers more chemical-free pest control tools, EPA says
Developers of genetically engineered crops would have an easier time getting their products onto the US market under a proposed ...
Viewpoint: UN’s ‘hand-in-glove’ alliance with anti-pesticide groups cripples response to Africa’s ravenous locust swarms
In a year devastated by locust plagues, the COVID-19 pandemic, and massive flooding that displaced over a hundred thousand people ...
CRISPR for cannabis: Gene-edited, disease-resistant marijuana poised for 2021 debut
Israeli startup CanBreed said it has reached a licensing agreement to use gene editing tools to provide cannabis growers with ...
USDA approves first ever CRISPR-edited petunia
The research team led by professor Geung-Ju Lee of Chungnam National University and Toolgen announced that the new variety of ...
EPA may relax rules on some pest-resistant crops to promote ‘science-based’ regulation
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to exempt from its regulation some biotech crops that are genetically engineered to be ...
CRISPR cows could boost sustainable meat production, but regulations and wary consumers stand in the way
When Ralph Fisher, a Texas cattle rancher, set eyes on one of the world’s first cloned calves in August 1999, he ...
CRISPR crop development proceeds rapidly, but ‘bottlenecks’ limit promise
Since its discovery as a bacterial adaptive immune system and its development for genome editing in eukaryotes, the clustered regularly ...
CRISPR-edited canola slated for 2021 field trials, moving crop closer to commercialization
Yield10 Bioscience....announced [August 17] that it has obtained a positive response from USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) for its CRISPR ...
Viewpoint: ‘Onerous’ regulations exacerbate consumer fear of gene-edited crops
....[T]he use of genetic engineering and gene editing to develop new crop varieties is well understood by the scientific community ...
Just 7 years old, CRISPR gene editing is making food more nutritious and battling COVID
Just seven years ago, the Broad Institute’s Feng Zhang, PhD, and Harvard geneticist George Church, PhD, separately demonstrated that in ...
Podcast: Mapping Humanity—How modern genetics is changing criminal justice, personalized medicine, and our identities
Innovations in genetics are already changing our lives for the better, and will continue to do so. Using gene-editing technology, ...
Gene-edited crops that ‘communicate with environment’ could launch next green revolution
Researchers at the Institute of Network Biology in Germany and their colleagues .... published a study in Nature showing that ...
132 research institutes press Europe to embrace CRISPR crops
The European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing (EU-SAGE) network and its members from 132 European research institutes and associations urge ...
Gene-editing amendment to UK agriculture bill withdrawn, delaying farmer access to CRISPR crops
An amendment tabled in the new UK agriculture bill, designed to allow access to new gene-editing technology, has been withdrawn ...
Video: Debating Europe’s pro-organic Farm to Fork Green Deal—Sustainable agriculture or recipe for disaster?
One of the unpleasant lessons of the COVID pandemic is how little prepared we’ve been for an event that was, ...
Agriculture industry risks PR disaster if it doesn’t educate the public about CRISPR
Gene-editing experts claim that the technology has the potential to make some foods more nutritious without increasing costs and can ...
Genetic puzzle: How mice can be modified to help in the race to develop coronavirus therapies
For more than three decades Michael Koob has been working out complicated puzzles using the tools of molecular biology and genetics ...
4,000 US babies are born with mitochondrial diseases. That could be fixed by a new form of gene editing
With the first experiments to use CRISPR in people underway, the gene-editing technique is showing promising signs in a few ...
More meat with less environmental impact? CRISPR and one gene change could improve the sustainability of beef production
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have successfully produced a bull calf, named Cosmo, who was genome-edited as an ...
Europe’s young farmers want to use latest sustainability tools—including gene editing
Young farmers’ organization, the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), took a generally positive but cautious view on the Commission’s ...
Viewpoint: Calling gene-edited crops ‘natural’ won’t dispel public skepticism. Here’s a better way to build trust in CRISPR
What determines whether a genetically modified vegetable or fruit is natural? ...
Pesticide fears spark winegrower interest in CRISPR-edited, disease-resistant grapes
According to a study conducted in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, wine grapes were first domesticated around 8000 ...
Rare genetic disorder homocystinuria can cause strokes, seizures and death. A ‘genetic glitch’ in blind cavefish offers hope for a treatment
The discovery of a gene behind the absence of eyes in Mexican cavefish may suggest a new way to treat ...
Green Party defends Europe’s simultaneous ban on gene-edited crops and use of biotech in medicine
[Editor's note: In June a faction of Germany's Green Party argued it was time the EU revised its strict regulation ...
CRISPR might save Cavendish bananas from extinction—but would it be a long-term solution?
Supermarket shelves may still be stocked chock-full of bananas, but the industry is growing increasingly alarmed. The fungal disease [TR-4], ...
How biotech-wary regenerative agriculture movement can benefit from CRISPR gene editing
The link between biotech and conventional farming will no doubt cause many regenerative agriculture purists to balk at the idea ...
As temperatures rise, gene editing helps climate proof the global food supply
“The largest single global change that threatens food security is high temperature,” said Donald Ort, a professor of plant biology ...
