Golden Rice
Talking Biotech: Can biofortified GMO soybeans help tackle vitamin A deficiency?
Plant scientist Monica Schmidt: By modifying only one gene, a new variety of soybeans has higher levels of beta-carotene than ...
Viewpoint: Misguided activism imperils potential of golden rice
Golden rice has the potential to solve a significant health problem in developing nations, where hundreds of thousands of children ...
Viewpoint: Netflix movie Okja stokes unwarranted GMO fears, promotes anti-science worldview
The film about a fictitious evil corporation called "Mirando" that genetically engineers dangerous "superpigs" for food encapsulates all of the ...
Biofortification: Is it the next ‘Green Revolution’ for more nutritious food?
Plant breeders and biotechnologists are working to make crops more nutritious--a process called biofortification--to improve the diets and health of ...
Bangladesh’s embrace of GMO technology may embolden innovation in developing countries
Bangladesh's successful application of biotechnology and development of its own GM crops could serve as a model for other developing ...
Uganda’s science march reveals love, frustration of young scientists
Student scientists join global march in support of science, offer their thoughts on where things stand in Uganda ...
Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears
The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...
Anti-GMO activists brandish disputed Stone-Glover Golden Rice paper in attacks on Nobel laureates
Anti-GMO activists are trying to discredit Nobel laureates' rebuke of Greenpeace for attempting to discredit Golden Rice humanitarian project. Here's ...
3 ways GMO rice could improve world but tech hurdles and anti-GMO protests block way
New GMO varieties of rice could improve nutrition, cut potentially dangerous arsenic levels and help combat climate change, but activist ...
Why Whole Foods and Chipotle’s anti-GMO campaigning has lost my business
I’ve become an accidental activist on behalf of GMOs, in part because of misleading fear based marketing campaigns by food ...
Golden Rice in India: Is it necessary? What are impediments to adoption?
The leading cause of life-altering disability in India is health risks linked to poor diets--which rice engineered to produce vitamin ...
