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Will relaxed USDA GMO, gene-edited crop regulation fuel consumer distrust of biotech?
Plants genetically modified to make changes that also have been made through conventional breeding will not need specific federal oversight, ...
Europe streamlined approval process to weeks to fight COVID-19 pandemic. Why does it take more than a decade to get a GMO safety review?
At the start of the pandemic, China built a hospital in double-quick time and we all thought, “that’s why they ...
Kenya poised to greenlight GMO disease-resistant cassava cultivation to protect key food source
Kenya is planning to green-light the cultivation and sale of genetically modified cassava in a move to improve food security ...
Viewpoint: Expanding organic agriculture could make another pandemic more likely
Modern technology and agricultural intensification are the proven path to a safer future ...
How GMO and CRISPR gene-edited plants are playing key roles in developing coronavirus vaccines and treatments
Questions about the origin of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) were raised, and some even speculated that the virus is a ...
Farm groups back South Australia plan to allow GMO crop cultivation, citing ‘freedom of choice’ for growers
South Australia’s Parliament has taken another step towards legalizing the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops, voting to approve ...
‘Bad stuff is just easier to believe’: Why GMO disinformation captures consumer attention
A couple of years ago, a former company data scientist and I tapped into our common fascination with social networks ...
USDA eliminates antiquated rules for GMOs which it says will bring plant biotech regulations ‘into the 21st century’
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue [May 14] announced a final rule updating and modernizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...
Bolivia accelerates GMO crop approvals to bolster national food supply, export industries
Interim President Jeanine Añez of Bolivia issued a Supreme Decree authorizing the National Biosafety Committee to speed up the evaluation ...
Ethiopia remains a net food importer, despite its rich farming history. Can GMO crops help?
The 21st century is said to be the century of biology and ecology. Thus, for Ethiopia, as one of the ...
Should Europe regulate disease-fighting gene drive organisms as GMOs?
Within the last decades, new genetic engineering tools for manipulating genetic material in plants, animals and microorganisms are getting large ...
Book review: Activist-friendly ‘GMOs Decoded’ paints a misleading picture of crop biotech
Sheldon Krimsky’s latest book, GMOs Decoded, has a foreword by Marion Nestle, an emeritus professor at New York University and ...
US, Kenya free-trade agreement could end run African nation’s ‘entrenched’ anti-GMO interests
Anti-biotech activists and sentiment are entrenched throughout Africa, but U.S. farm groups and businesses are hoping a free-trade agreement with ...
Science majors less skeptical of GMOs than other undergraduates? Yes, but not by much
For the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to supervise a number of students working on their undergraduate thesis in ...
Podcast: COVID-19 a global communist plot? Glyphosate didn’t cause the pandemic. Time to embrace agricultural biotechnology.
While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...
How insect resistant Bt eggplant has made Bangladesh a global ‘role model’: A photo essay
Brinjal — also known as eggplant, aubergine and talong — is a very popular and important vegetable in South Asia ...
Non-GMO gene editing: New technique edits plant DNA without use of ‘foreign’ bacterial genes
An NC State researcher has developed a new way to get CRISPR/Cas9 into plant cells without inserting foreign DNA. This ...
Bolivian farmers reject activist opposition to GMO seed approvals, expecting crops yields to triple
The Federation of Peasant Workers of Cochabamba (FTCC) announced its discontent against the use of transgenic seeds promoted by the ...
She’s baaaack! ‘Plandemic’ anti-vaccine disinformation ‘star’ Judy Mikovits now warning glyphosate, GMOs boost COVID-19 risk
[In early May], I wrote about Plandemic, a viral video featuring disgraced scientist turned antivaxxer turned COVID-19 “Fire Fauci” conspiracy ...
Rescuing Africa’s staple orphan crops—sorghum, millet, cowpea, cassava and sweat potato—with biotechnology could help feed millions of people
The year is 2100 and Africa is home to the world’s largest population of young people, with its current leader ...
COVID-19 may stall Nigeria’s rollout of GMO cowpea
The COVID-19 pandemic may delay the rollout of pest-resistant Bt cowpea, Nigeria’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop. The country’s ...
Viewpoint: Modern ‘post-truth’ politics ignores sustainability benefits of GMOs and pesticides
As Africa shows, locust plagues can be devastating for food security, and climate science enables us to detect that certain ...
GMO tomato as edible COVID vaccine? Mexican scientists work to make it a reality
While large companies and public sector consortiums in the United States, Canada, China and Europe are running at full speed ...
Despite GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton approval, Ethiopia still skittish about widespread biotech crop cultivation
The Ethiopian government has denied approving the commercial cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) other than two Bt cotton varieties ...
Podcast: GMOs = witchcraft? ‘Big Ag’ didn’t cause coronavirus; Remdesivir for COVID-19
We finally have a drug to treat COVID-19 in remdesivir, but how well does it work? Anti-GMO activists have blamed ...
GMO corn cultivation in Europe has no adverse environmental effects, decade-long study confirms
In European regulations for the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMO), the objective of General Surveillance ...
Impossible Foods rolls out plant-based GMO burger to 1,700 new stores as COVID-19 strains meat supplies
As more meat plants temporarily close or operate at reduced capacity as coronavirus spreads, plant-based brands “have a window of ...
