Sequestering carbon on a gigaton scale: How gene editing can address climate change by reducing atmospheric emissions

Sequestering carbon on a gigaton scale: How gene editing can address climate change by reducing atmospheric emissions

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Hardly a day goes by without another piece praising the potential for gene editing to help solve climate change. Nevertheless, the possible contributions of biology and biotechnology have been conspicuously ...
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Green transition: How agriculture can drive climate change solutions

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It is widely recognized that we must transition our energy economies to a greener, more sustainable state. This will only happen ...
Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Viewpoint: Global crop biotechnology revolution — 2022 saw dramatic advances in agricultural innovation

Conquest, war, famine, and death: Looking back on 2022 as the COVID-19 plague roars into its fourth year, the Four Horsemen ...
Viewpoint: How to turn Biden's bioeconomy pledge from a PR exercise into proactive policy

Viewpoint: How to turn Biden’s bioeconomy pledge from a PR exercise into proactive policy

President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
Viewpoint: Bureaucracy building or real research and regulatory reform — Can Biden turn a proclamation to spur biotechnology innovation in health, energy and agriculture into actionable projects?

Viewpoint: Bureaucracy building or real research and regulatory reform — Can Biden turn a proclamation to spur biotechnology innovation in health, energy and agriculture into actionable projects?

President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
Viewpoint: How biotechnology can make geopolitical food security upheavals less likely — Ukrainian War prompts global rethink about Europe’s reliance on ‘obsolete technologies’

Viewpoint: How biotechnology can make geopolitical food security upheavals less likely — Ukrainian War prompts global rethink about Europe’s reliance on ‘obsolete technologies’

Celebrated in symphonies, and storied in literature and cinema, the steppes of central Asia have long played a key role in the history ...
Protecting wild salmon and other aquatic species: Success of AquaAdvantage salmon shows sustainable aquaculture will lean heavily on advanced breeding and biotechnology

Protecting wild salmon and other aquatic species: Success of AquaAdvantage salmon shows sustainable aquaculture will lean heavily on advanced breeding and biotechnology

Wild salmon are in trouble worldwide. Many Pacific and Atlantic populations have disappeared or declined to record lows. But as we and a group of ...
How genetically-engineered salmon could help preserve wild populations — if it isn't blocked by anti-GMO activist groups

How genetically-engineered salmon could help preserve wild populations — if it isn’t blocked by anti-GMO activist groups

Salmon are iconic keystone species across the northern Pacific and Atlantic basins. Salmon is also a prized human delicacy. Wild ...
Viewpoint: What regulatory and diplomatic steps are necessary to forge a transatlantic alliance promoting agricultural biotechnology innovation?

Viewpoint: What regulatory and diplomatic steps are necessary to forge a transatlantic alliance promoting agricultural biotechnology innovation?

Mutual self-interest provides a strong basis for transatlantic cooperation in biotechnology based on shared recognition of its vast potential to ...
Viewpoint: Beyond the precautionary principle — Climate change concerns underscore need for coordinated, flexible crop gene editing regulation

Viewpoint: Beyond the precautionary principle — Climate change concerns underscore need for coordinated, flexible crop gene editing regulation

Although public-sector research centers across the developing world initially enthusiastically embraced biotech processes, wide adoption has since been impeded by ...
Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis

Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis

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The season of retrospectives is upon us. The past year will be long remembered with dismay and sadness, as the four horsemen—war, famine, pestilence and plague—each had robust ...
Gene editing and agriculture: Challenges and opportunities to significantly address climate change

Gene editing and agriculture: Challenges and opportunities to significantly address climate change

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Excess emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activities have accumulated in the atmosphere at levels sufficient to disrupt global ...
Viewpoint: By failing to endorse carbon-cutting biotechnology innovations, Glasgow climate summit missed 'low hanging fruit'

Viewpoint: By failing to endorse carbon-cutting biotechnology innovations, Glasgow climate summit missed ‘low hanging fruit’

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Although verdicts vary, and some progress was clearly made, the climate change consensus emerging among scientists post-Glasgow is that the world continues on a path ...
‘Monsatan' resurrected: Washington Post bungles review of misguided (and erroneous) new book

‘Monsatan’ resurrected: Washington Post bungles review of misguided (and erroneous) new book

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What better time than the Halloween season to indulge anxieties about mortality and its discontents and give running room to ...
Viewpoint: Here’s the backstory behind Sri Lanka’s synthetic pesticide ban and organic only decree

Viewpoint: Here’s the backstory behind Sri Lanka’s synthetic pesticide ban and organic only decree

For most folks, “Sri Lanka” is likely to evoke a number of thoughts: tropical paradise with swaying palms and cerulean ...
Viewpoint: Eric Lander is the first geneticist to direct US science policy. Here’s how he can harness the biotechnology revolution

Viewpoint: Eric Lander is the first geneticist to direct US science policy. Here’s how he can harness the biotechnology revolution

Eric Lander—geneticist, mathematician, president and founding director of the Broad Institute— took the helm on June 2 as director of the Office of Science and ...
Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patents will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic

Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patents will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic

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In a recent Washington Post column, Fareed Zakaria wrote: The United States is entering a post-pandemic era. This is happening primarily ...
How the Biden Administration can accelerate prosperity by fixing agricultural-biotech regulations

How the Biden Administration can accelerate prosperity by fixing agricultural-biotech regulations

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The Biden administration has a rare opportunity to accelerate agricultural innovation and spur broad and lasting economic growth by taking ...
The mRNA vaccines battling COVID-19 are revolutionizing virus fighting strategies. Here’s how

The mRNA vaccines battling COVID-19 are revolutionizing virus fighting strategies. Here’s how

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British economist Thomas Babington Macaulay challenged a thread of pessimism writing in 1830: “On what principle is it that, when ...
Podcast: Debunking ‘dangerous’ anti-GMO misinformation that harms developing countries

Podcast: Debunking ‘dangerous’ anti-GMO misinformation that harms developing countries

Crops and foods improved through biotechnology, popularly known as “GMOs” (for “genetically modified organisms”) remain at the center of a ...
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Gene-edited crops and animals: Best-kept secrets in the fight against climate change

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Advances in gene editing over the past decade have given scientists new tools to tailor the biochemistry of nearly any ...
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Viewpoint: Expanding organic agriculture could make another pandemic more likely

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Modern technology and agricultural intensification are the proven path to a safer future ...
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Viewpoint: It’s time to stop ‘worrying’ whether gene-edited plants and animals are GMOs—and set aside senseless regulations

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Finding the best path starts with understanding what gene editing actually is -- and isn't ...
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Viewpoint: Outgoing FDA chief Scott Gottlieb scored some wins, but dropped the ball on food labeling, gene-edited plants and animals

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Gottlieb’s policy proposals for FDA oversight of gene-edited plants and animals were as inexplicable as they were inconsistent with longstanding U.S. policy ...
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Getting out of the gene-editing mess created by Chinese scientist He Jiankui

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There have always been rogues willing to carve their own paths no matter what the cost to others. But how ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s why organic farming needs GMOs

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“Civilization has been built on genetically modified plants.” — Nina V. Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientists View of Genetically ...
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Viewpoint: Why the USDA decided not to over-regulate CRISPR crops—and what it means for agriculture’s future

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On 28 March, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that “USDA does not regulate or have any plans to regulate plants that could ...
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Viewpoint: FDA should crack down on food safety misinformation

[Editor's note: Val Giddings is a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The following is part of a letter ...
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