David Hill
Viewpoint: England’s head start in pioneering crop gene editing in Europe in danger
News that global agribusiness Syngenta is to cut its UK-based wheat breeding activities after 35 years, focusing activity on the ...
Viewpoint: Britain’s new Labor government signals it will move forward legislation to open the door to CRISPR and other crop gene editing innovations
There are increasingly positive signs that the newly-elected Labour administration will shortly bring forward the secondary legislation needed to implement ...
Viewpoint: UK’s organic farming lobby needs to drop its ideological rejection of gene editing if it hopes to remain viable
In July last year, the European Commission published its proposals for regulating plants developed using new genomic techniques (NGTs) such ...
Everyone wants ‘sustainable farming’ but defining a land use strategy that balances competing environmental and production goals is tricky
Faced with global food security concerns and soaring food and energy price inflation, the UK Government seems to have woken ...
Viewpoint: ‘We can’t reward less productive organic farming’ — A call to re-introduce science to agricultural planning
Faced with global food security concerns and soaring food and energy price inflation, the UK Government seems to have woken ...
EU-US trade talks represent opportunity to change minds on GM
"There will be plenty of observers of the forthcoming EU/USA trade talks who will speculate as to the outcome with ...
Toothless no more- Researchers using stem cells to grow teeth
It may be hard to remember what it was like to lose a tooth as a child, but many adults ...