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EPA Issues New Regulations for Gene-Edited Crops

Countries have been setting up regulations to deal with gene-edited crops such as CRISPR. While some countries have treated gene-edited crops as traditional GM crops from a regulatory standpoint, the…

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CAST Issue Paper: Genome Editing in Agriculture: Methods, Applications, and Governance

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) recently released and issue paper on genome editing. The task force that developed the paper includes NC State University's own Dr. Jennifer…

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When Genetic Engineering Is the Environmentally Friendly Choice

Crop Hybridization and Genetic Engineering: An Illustration Using Playing CardsDr. Paul Vincelli of the University of Kentucky demonstrates why some refer to genetic engineering as precision…

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CRISPR Is Going To Revolutionize Our Food System—And Start A New War Over GMOs

CRISPR is a powerful and precise new technology that can be used to edit genes. The technology can be used for transgenesis, but can also be used for gene deletion or moving genes from sexually…

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10 Ways CRISPR (Gene-Editing) Can Fight Poverty

By Joe McCarthy on Nov. 27, 2015Have you heard of CRISPR? Maybe you’ve heard the full term: clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats--or maybe not.If you haven’t, I’m sure you’ll…

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Europe’s genetically edited plants stuck in legal limbo

Scientists frustrated at delay in deciding if GM regulations apply to precision gene editing.Alison Abbott, from NaturePlant geneticist Stefan Jansson is champing at the bit to start field trials on…

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“green light in the tunnel”! swedish board of agriculture: a crispr-cas9-mutant but not a gmo

07 December 2015The Swedish Board of Agriculture has, after questions from researchers in Umeå and Uppsala in Sweden, confirmed the interpretation that some plants in which the genome has been edited…

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John Innes Centre Scientists Use CRISPR Technology to Edit Crop Genes - Subsequent Generations Contain No Transgenes

30 November 2015CRISPR gene-editing is allowing rapid scientific advances in many fields, including human health and now it has been shown that crop research can also benefit from this latest…

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The Gene Hackers a Powerful New Technology Enables Us to Manipulate Our DNA More Easily Than Ever Before.

THE NEW YORKERBY MICHAEL SPECTERthirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while…

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Out-of-the-Box: Science-Based Insights Into Food System Sustainability - Why Genome Editing Is So Remarkable

By Paul Vincelli, University of KentuckySunday, November 1, 2015Why Genome Editing is So RemarkableGenetic engineering of crops is undergoing a revolution, and it is being led by a new suite of…