Icar Emphasizes Importance of Field Trials of Gm Crops
From ISAAA India’s premier agriculture research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has emphasized the importance of genetically engineered …
Agriculture Committee Opposes National Bans on Imports of GM Food and Feed
Press release – Agriculture − 03-09-2015 – 12:38 The agriculture committee on Thursday rejected the Commission’s draft law that would …
More Than 240 Organizations and Scientific Institutions Support the Safety of GM Crops
By Daniel Norero Last Update: June 16, 2015. Currently there is a social and political controversy about the safety of foods …
Adopting Golden Rice in Bangladesh
Md. Abdul Momin, Senior Liaison Officer, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) All the developed countries are harvesting the benefits of applied …
Sustainable Potato That Resists Blight Given Green Light by USDA, but Anti-GMO Activists Remain Opposed
Jon Entine | August 30, 2015 You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Irish Potato Famine. Also known as the Great …
A Warning About Government Warnings
By Ilya Somin August 22 As economist David Henderson points out, even many free market advocates believe that government-mandated warnings …
Vietnam - Growing GM Corn Should Rest With Farmers
Speaking at the seminar held by the Peace and Development Foundation of HCMC and Tri Viet Center for Social …
Food in a Future of 10 Billion
Nina V Fedoroff Over the past two centuries, the human population has grown sevenfold and the experts anticipate the addition …
EU Regulation on GM Organisms Not 'Fit for Purpose'
EU regulations that prevent genetically modified crops from being grown in the UK—even after they have passed rigorous safety …
MIT Technology Review: The Next Great GMO Debate Deep Inside Its Labs, Monsanto Is Learning How to Modify Crops by Spraying Them With RNA Rather Than Tinkering With Their Genes.
By Antonio Regalado on August 11, 2015 The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through …
A Surprise Source of Life’s Code Emerging data suggests the seemingly impossible — that mysterious new genes arise from “junk” DNA.
By: Emily Singer August 18, 2015 Genes, like people, have families — lineages that stretch back through time, all the way …
Stanford Researchers Genetically Engineer Yeast to Produce Opioids
BY TOM ABATE It typically takes a year to produce hydrocodone from plants, but Christina Smolke and colleagues have genetically …