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Pros and cons of GMOs: An evidence-based comparison of genetically modified foods
GMO crops have had their DNA altered to be more resistant to pesticides and less expensive to produ…
Madeline Kennedy,Samantha Cas…
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What are GMOs? The truth about genetically-modified organisms and if they're safe to eat
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) include foods like some apples and salmon whose DNA has been …
Stacy Lu,Samantha Cassetty
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A government-funded research project using insects to genetically modify crops could trigger a 'biological arms race,' scientists warn
Over the past two years, scientists at a number of universities, including Pennsylvania State Unive…
Peter Kotecki
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China's Fierce Public Debate Over GM Food Exposes Concerns About America
Since a change of China's leadership a year ago, however, supporters of GM food inside the governme…
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The world's 4th-largest chemical giant wants to genetically modify corn to create a new super crop in the next 5 years
This could be good news given Americans' hefty - though scientifically unfounded - opposition to GM…
Erin Brodwin
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16 genetically modified foods that are critical to the US food supply
Humans have been genetically modifying plants since we first started domesticating and breeding the…
Rebecca Harrington
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The debate over genetically modified foods is missing one simple thing
Rice, a staple crop for many people, is missing two proteins necessary to make this vitamin. In the…
Tanya Lewis
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A new technique for genetically modifying our food could become the new GMO
As the journal's editors write in an accompanying editorial, "A distinction must be established, pa…
Tanya Lewis
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This Salmon Will Likely Be The First Genetically Modified Animal You Eat
Their faster growth means AquAdvantage salmon also consume 25% less feed in their lifetime than con…
Leslie Baehr
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Actually, That New Study Does NOT Prove That Genetically Modified Food Is Horrible For You
So there you have it. This was a research paper that used bioinformatic methods to ask yet again if…
Jennifer Welsh
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Illegal cotton seed sales are thriving in India, putting farmers at risk
The taskforce has been deliberating on the problem of the sale and cultivation of illegal se…
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Chocolate could be extinct by 2050, but some companies think genetic engineering could save their supply
Companies that want to keep costs low have had to sacrifice the flavor of their products. In 2014, …
Aria Bendix
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The CEO of Silicon Valley's favorite meal-replacement startup shares why he thinks the tide is shifting on genetic engineering
The company decided to go public about its use of the technology nearly four years ago, when public…
Erin Brodwin
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Chinese scientists want to sell these teensy genetically-engineered pigs as pets
The micropigs have already been used in studies of stem cells and gut microbes, and the animals' sm…
Tanya Lewis
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Environmentalists Who Oppose GM Crops Are Unscientific And Dangerous
America takes little notice of this nonsense. But green groups in Europe, with the support of influ…
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GM Crops Could Finally Be Grown In The UK After A Landmark EU Ruling
While GreenFacts writes: "Genetic engineering may accelerate the damaging effects of agriculture or…
Joshua Barrie
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Scientists think a GMO version of one crop might be the key to feeding 3.5 billion people
But in two new studies, both of which were published Monday, June 6 in the journal Nature Genomics,…
Lydia Ramsey
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For the first time, the USDA said it won't subject a crop edited with controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR to the same rules as GMOs
"Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco - two widely used…
Erin Brodwin
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India's bioeconomy reaches valuation of USD 151 billion, contributes 4.25 percent to GDP: Report
India's bioeconomy has grown to USD 151 billion by the end of 2023, contributing 4.25% to the GDP a…
PTI
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India's bioeconomy reaches valuation of $151 billion, contributes 4.25% to GDP: Report
It was released during a session at the Global Bio-India Summit 2024. The report said that…