Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.
Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...
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Is engineering a ‘super’ human being a good idea?
Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...
Rob Reynish asks readers to look behind the political labels to what science can do to keep our food industries from falling ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...
The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...
Chromosomes can vary in length and size, but they usually carry thousands of base pairs of DNA. While scientists have successfully edited the genomes of many creatures, most of those edits have been ...
No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...
Author of “Hacking Darwin,” Jamie Metzl, warns genetic engineering threatens the very things that make us human and could descend into a new form of arms race. He discusses what’s at stake with Hari ...
The rapid adoption of genetic engineering by multinational seed firms has led some observers to conclude that genetic engineering is now the dominant technology for developing new seed varieties 1. If ...
Cannabis is the only plant known to produce tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but it remains an imperfect vessel for producing the chemical on an industrial scale. The psychoactive substance is normally ...
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