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Viewpoint: Scientific ignorance fuels skepticism of crop biotechnology
This one question is an effective test of scientific ignorance ...
Can we feed a growing world population without using yield-boosting technologies?
The production of food has environmental impacts, there is no way around this .... Nature is ruthless and weeds will ...
Using biotech to turn plants into ‘antifungal factories’ could protect against disease
Researchers [at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) in Spain] have developed a biotechnological tool to produce .... antifungal ...
Viewpoint: Criticism of GMO crops in India is ‘deeply flawed’
A review article, “Modern technologies for sustainable food and nutrition security,” which appeared in the November 25 issue of the ...
Will gene editing boost food production? The potential of a ‘revolutionary technology’
Genome-editing tools provide advanced biotechnological techniques that .... have been utilized in a wide variety of plant species to characterize ...
GMO bacteria could help resolve Africa’s plastic pollution ‘menace’
African scientists are calling for investments in the application of biotechnology to deal with the world’s plastic pollution problem. They ...
Japan’s ‘moderate’ regulation proposal could spur development of gene-edited crops
A health ministry panel said [December 5] that most of the foods currently under development using genome editing can be ...
‘Overblown’ fear of biotech crops hinders scientific progress, Nobel laureates warn
Winners of this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry say overblown fears about genetically modified foods risk preventing society benefiting from ...
GM cotton could revive Nigeria’s ‘comatose’ textile industry, government says
Despite growing opposition against introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the country, the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology ...
PEW survey: Half of Americans believe GMOs pose health risks and are linked to use of food additives
A new Pew Research Center report shows an American public that is closely divided over [food] additives, and genetically modified (GM) crops ...
Talking Biotech: How do we get consumers to think like scientists?
Thomas Zinnen and Kevin Folta tackle a perennial question: How do you communicate science to a hostile audience? ...
Viewpoint: With reasonable regulation, we can turn wild plants into food with gene editing
The crops we rely on today have been bred over thousands of years to enhance certain characteristics. For example, sweetcorn ...
Is Europe ‘turning its back’ on reason and science?
Is Europe, home of the Enlightenment, turning its back on reason and science? Recent decisions by Europe’s regulators, judges, and ...
A farmer’s ‘naughty list’: Activists, celebrities and lawyers who spread the most misinformation in 2018
That’s right: it’s almost time for the jolly old fat man to visit homes around the world to deliver presents ...
GMO crops may help keep arsenic out of India’s food supply
An Indian scientist in the UK is working on a way to grow crops in arsenic contaminated soil, a study ...
Video: As gene editing hits the farm, how will agriculture change?
Cows born without horns or pigs that never reach puberty? These scenarios could become a reality soon thanks to new gene-editing ...
GMO crops and herbicides: A ‘win-win’ for farmers and the environment, plant scientist Wayne Parrott says
A fertile soil is a microbial wonderland .... a tiny ecosystem too small to see with our eyes. Yet, the ...
USDA set to release final ‘bioengineered’ food labeling rule
After a contentious two-year comment period .... a rule requiring companies to label genetically modified foods is being finalized [the week ...
Farmers, here’s what the public wants to know about food
Tyson Foods is the biggest U.S. food company .... [E]arlier this year it formed the Trendtellers Council and packed it ...
Precautionary principle may threaten progress of agriculture, medicine in Africa, expert says
An over-reliance on the precautionary principle threatened to impede innovation in decisions made at [the recent] Convention on Biological Diversity ...
Podcast with Dr. Paul Offit: Striking similarities between anti-biotech and anti-vaccine activism
The anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements are increasingly overlapping in methods and outlook ...
Rejecting GMO crops is a risky decision, experts say
Every new or improved technology, regardless of its particular field or application, can involve risk, potential risk, or perception of ...
Uganda’s young cassava farmers want access to GMO crops
Though Uganda’s Parliament passed a biosafety bill [the week of November 26], it remains unclear whether it will benefit a ...
Non-browning mushrooms, heart healthy soybean oil: Milestones in the quest to fine tune food with gene editing
White button mushrooms .... [T]hese little mushrooms represent an important agricultural milestone because they were the first gene-edited crop to ...
How anti-GMO groups and ‘Russian trolls’ influence public perceptions of science
A new opinion poll suggests that Russian trolls, aided by anti-GMO groups such as the Center for Food Safety and ...
GMOs 101: Experts break down the basics of crop biotechnology
An online search for “GMO” returns more than 88 million results — a tangled mess of frightening images, dense data, ...
Magic and morality: Why some consumers are afraid of GMOs
In the eyes of Susan Schenck, GMOs are pretty much the worst thing going in food. As the author of ...
