Gene-edited wheat ‘significantly lowers levels of cancer-linked acrylamide which forms when bread is baked or toasted'

Gene-edited wheat ‘significantly lowers levels of cancer-linked acrylamide which forms when bread is baked or toasted’

Adam Vaughan | Times (UK) | 
A strain of gene-edited wheat that could be sold in Britain under a new law has been shown to lower ...
Viewpoint: Why Scotland's rejection of genetically modified and gene-edited crops is backward

Viewpoint: Why Scotland’s rejection of genetically modified and gene-edited crops is backward

Times (UK) | 
Routinely, it seems, politicians base their views on which scientific work should be suppressed and which supported on unfounded scare ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Sanctimonious’ biodynamic farming promoted by rockstar ‘Sting’ rebuffed by Italy’s president and Nobel laureates

Tom Kington | Times (UK) | 
Sting may swear by it, but the rock star’s trick of using dung, animal intestines and cow horns to get ...
Meet the next generation of California farmers: Robots

Meet the next generation of California farmers: Robots

Danny Fortson | Times (UK) | 
In California, the breadbasket of America, more than half of farmers there told a survey that they were unable to ...
Viewpoint: ‘We must side with the EU even when it is wrong rather than England if it is right’?— Scotland resists England’s embrace of gene editing to promote food security

Viewpoint: ‘We must side with the EU even when it is wrong rather than England if it is right’?— Scotland resists England’s embrace of gene editing to promote food security

Alex Massie | Times (UK) | 
Imagine that an extraordinary scientific discovery promised the ability to eradicate hunger, transform agricultural productivity and significantly enhance animal welfare ...
Viewpoint: COVID-19 vaccine success should prompt us to rethink our fear of GMO ‘Frankenfoods’

Viewpoint: COVID-19 vaccine success should prompt us to rethink our fear of GMO ‘Frankenfoods’

Ben Spencer | Times (UK) | 
[COVID vaccines are] one of the biggest, and certainly the most high-profile, utilizations of genetic technology in the history of ...
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Viewpoint: UK proposal to break from EU CRISPR rules could unleash plant breeding ‘gold rush’

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
The agriculture bill before the House of Lords [June 10] offers a chance for plant breeders to make safer, more ...
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How the ‘seductive myth of nature’s goodness’ infiltrated our thinking about food, medicine and even makeup

James McConnachie | Times (UK) | 
“Humankind is poised to make monumental decisions,” Alan Levinovitz warns, “about the meaning and importance of natural goodness.” ... His ...
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Viewpoint: How Europe’s risk aversion has turned the continent into an agricultural backwater

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
With tariffs announced against Brazil and Argentina, and a threat against France, Donald Trump is dragging the world deeper into ...
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New gene analysis technique identifies natural disease resistance in wheat to protect against fast-spreading stem rust

Tom Whipple | Times (UK) | 
Stem rust has devastated wheat for centuries....Now a virulent strain is spreading from Africa. Even as wheat crops wither and ...
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Russian social media ‘bots’ push GMO-autism link, new report shows

Rhys Blakely | Times (UK) | 
Social media accounts sponsored by the Kremlin have whipped up fears about western food and water supplies, analysis shows. Scores of ...
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Genome scientist Craig Venter accused of stealing trade secrets from company he helped create

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
Craig Venter is not a man to balk at breaking a few eggs to make a scientific omelette. The maverick ...
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Kidney cancer: New DNA test can measure whether tumor might be fatal

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
Hundreds of people with kidney cancer could be spared surgery with a DNA test that can identify whether tumours are ...
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Identify as straight? Gay? Transgender? That may be deeply influenced by genetics, study shows

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
Transgender men and women may carry genetic variants that influence their gender identity, a study suggests. It is the first ...
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Seeds of Science: Mark Lynas’ journey from anti-GMO activist to biotech advocate

Dominic Lawson | Times (UK) | 
If there is a braver or more morally conscientious person in Britain than Mark Lynas, I should be surprised. Or ...
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Bill Gates’ ‘supercow’ quest: Funding for livestock genetics research aims to boost milk production

Tom Whipple | Times (UK) | 
Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man a hybrid supercow with the ...
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Viewpoint: GMO crops are future of African farming—if anti-biotech activists get out of the way

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
[I]nfluenced by European environmentalists, most African countries forbid the growing of genetically modified crops. This is a pity, because unless ...
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Activist case that glyphosate herbicide causes cancer mired in scandal

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
A perfectly useful herbicide could be banned in Europe thanks to a tangled network of lobbyists, lawyers and activists. … ...
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Will Britain fumble regulations on human and agricultural gene editing as it has on GMOs?

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
Britain has an opportunity to seize on the latest breakthroughs in gene editing and pioneer new approaches in agriculture, research ...
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Aggressive form of leukemia ‘wiped out’ by genetically modified immune cell therapy

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
Two kinds of incurable blood cancer have been eradicated in more than two out of three patients by a therapy ...
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Dangerous GMO petunias? Bright orange-red flowers pulled from UK shelves

Ben Webster | Times (UK) | 
Garden centres [in the UK] have been ordered to withdraw orange petunias from sale over concerns that they may be ...
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Ripen on demand? New generation of GMO crops could dramatically increase yield

Tom Whipple | Times (UK) | 
Farmers could one day control when their crops ripen after the development of modified rice that flowers on demand. Despite ...
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UK could become gene-editing leader in farming post-Brexit

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
Scientists at the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, said [February 2017] that they had edited the genomes of pigs, rendering them ...
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EU may block import of GMO crops from Britain if country allows biotech crops post-Brexit

Ben Webster | Times (UK) | 
Plans to grow genetically modified crops in Britain could result in the EU blocking imports of the produce after Brexit, ...
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British consumer skepticism of GMO foods and crops appears to be softening

Oliver Moody | Times (UK) | 
Public opinion has swung behind genetically modified crops for the first time after decades of opposition, according to a survey ...

GMO debate may hinder progress of RNA interference biotechnology in Europe

Times (UK) | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The debate around genetically ...
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EU “independent” bee task force chair plotted to blame neonicotinoids for deaths then cook research to fit PR plan

Ben Webster | Times (UK) | 
Research blaming pesticides for the decline in honeybees has been called into question by a leaked note suggesting that scientists ...
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Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming

Matt Ridley | Times (UK) | 
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...
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