Golden Rice
Biofortified CRISPR-edited rice could help battle global vitamin A deficiency
Genome editing could be an alternative approach to improve the vitamin A content of crops, according to a study by ...
Food safety officials reject Golden Rice-cancer link as Philippines inches toward commercializing the GMO crop
GOLDEN RICE, developed by biotechnologists to address Vitamin A deficiency, is still in the process of completing field trials before ...
Bangladesh could approve GMO Golden Rice in November 2019—after 10-year delay caused by regulation, activism
By [November 15], Bangladesh’s agriculture minister is expected to announce the approval of “golden rice" for sale and use, making ...
Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
GMO Golden Rice lauded as one of the most important research projects over the past 50 years
The Golden Rice humanitarian project has been recognized by Project Management Institute (PMI) as one of the Most Influential Projects ...
Viewpoint: Golden Rice—how ‘stultifying overregulation, fear and hostility’ kept a GMO superfood off the market
The superfood thus seemed to have everything going for it: It would be the basis for a sea change in ...
‘GMOs are banned in Europe’ and 3 other popular biotech crop myths busted
“What do you wish people knew about GMOs that would completely surprise them?" ...
How the quest to bake a better banana bread helps us understand GMOs
A simple analogy can help explain how genetic modification works ...
No ‘meaningful difference’ between GMO golden rice and conventional counterpart, except for boosted beta-carotene levels, study confirms
Compositional analyses were performed on samples of rice grain, straw, and derived bran obtained from golden rice event GR2E and ...
A tale of two GMO crops: Why were omega-3 producing plants developed faster than golden rice?
One of the arguments that has been advanced to promote genetically engineered crops is that .... [c]rops could be engineered ...
Golden Rice, Part 4: Cost-effective GMO crop can save lives and dramatically boost developing economies
Golden Rice is safe, and there is excellent human evidence that it will work ...
Nutritionally enhanced GMO crops could boost public health worldwide, so why have we developed so few?
The potential for using genetic modification (GM) to enhance the nutritional composition of crops .... has been recognized since the ...
Golden Rice, Part 3: A thoroughly studied, safe and nutritionally enhanced GMO crop approved by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, but vilified by Greenpeace and ‘environmental’ activists
‘Opposition [to Golden Rice] based on emotion and dogma contradicted by data must be stopped.' ...
Golden Rice, Part 2: Will nutritionally enhanced rice work and help solve malnutrition in developing countries?
For more than a quarter of a century, vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been recognized by the United Nations as ...
Golden Rice, Part 1: The story of a GMO crop that could benefit billions of children a year
For billions of people, the stakes could not be higher ...
Podcast: Yale neurologist Steven Novella debunks popular myths about GMO golden rice
As Bangladesh prepares to release GMO golden rice, Yale University clinical neurologist Steven Novella and co-hosts debunk some popular myths ...
How genetically engineered crops can boost Africa’s fight against malnutrition
Engineered crops can provide the long-sought breakthrough in food security for Africa ...
Viewpoint: Despite anti-GMO opposition, poor farmers will finally plant ‘life-saving’ golden rice
Golden Rice which has been genetically engineered to have higher levels of the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene is finally about ...
Golden Rice is coming. Finally! Will it be the game-changer hinted at for almost 20 years?
Having a staple crop that delivers adequate nutrition is a necessary precondition to fixing poverty ...
Opposition to GMO crops is a first-world privilege, plant scientist says
Growing up in India, Devang Mehta thought of GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, as an exciting new technology. “India is ...
Glyphosate scares, Natural News’ Mike Adams unhinged and the ‘bee-pocalypse’: GLP’s 8 most impactful farm and food stories of 2018
These stories shaped a tumultuous year for agricultural biotech ...
Is climate change ‘robbing’ our food of nutrients?
Is it possible to starve yourself of nutrients while simultaneously gaining weight? .... According to a growing body of research, ...
Vitamin-fortified Golden Rice moves one step closer to commercialization in the Philippines
A variety of Oryza sativa (rice) genetically engineered using recombinant DNA technology, Golden Rice contains beta carotene, an antioxidant which ...
Activists ‘storm’ Philippine Rice Research Institute to protest field trials of vitamin-fortified Golden Rice
A group of farmers [on November 7] stormed the headquarters of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) to protest the ...
Are GMO critics more open to gene editing that targets plant and human diseases?
The early generations of transgenic plants focused primarily on increasing productivity, either by reducing pest damage or increasing yields by ...
U.S. investments in biotech fuel Philippine agricultural boom
Biotechnology in the Philippines is so important that a new biotechnology center is being built to support the Philippine Department ...
Anti-GMO groups draw FDA rebuke over misrepresentation of Golden Rice nutrition
Finally, the FDA weighed in on Golden Rice, with its May 24 announcement approving it for use in the United ...
