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Viewpoint: Europe’s trade and agricultural biotech policy is held hostage by environmental activists, hurting farmers and consumers

Alan Beattie | Financial Times | 
Recently, two more shiny new regulatory appliances started to roll off the EU’s legislative assembly line: a due diligence law ...
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Battling skin diseases: Biotech-based skincare products aim to shut down genes responsible for unwanted inflammation and itchiness

Clive Cookson | Financial Times | 
A new biotech company that aims to harness the immune system to treat a range of skin diseases will launch ...
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Viewpoint: While African nations embrace GM and gene-edited crops to address climate change challenges, EU lags further behind, even as food prices soar

Anjana Ahuja | Financial Times | 
While some richer nations dither over how to deal with biotech farming innovations, scientists in lower and middle income countries are ...
‘Intelligence explosion’: Deep space is too far away for humans to explore but AI may offer a work-around—uploading our brains into the cloud

Podcast: ‘Intelligence explosion’ — Deep space is too far away for humans to explore, but AI may offer a work-around by uploading our brains into the cloud

Futuristic objectives that are at the centre of the AI industry’s quest for superintelligence and hear about the Extropians, ...
Here’s how natural biologicals can produce environmentally-friendly fertilizers and pesticides

Here’s how natural biologicals can produce environmentally-friendly fertilizers and pesticides

There are few problems larger than the climate crisis. But one potential solution is so small it cannot be seen ...
Onslaught of droughts and war soften EU opposition to crop gene editing

Onslaught of droughts and war soften EU opposition to crop gene editing

Andy Bounds, Emiko Terazono | Financial Times | 
When GMO technology first arrived in Europe in the 2000s it met fierce opposition in a region that prides itself ...
How seed gene banks are preserving biodiversity and providing a hedge against climate change

How seed gene banks are preserving biodiversity and providing a hedge against climate change

Gideon Long | Financial Times | 
“It’s a tool against extinction — not just biological extinction but, also, the extinction of knowledge.” The facility at Palmira ...
French president Emmanuel Macron on Europe’s pro-organic, anti-biotechnology sustainable food strategy: ‘It was based on a pre-Ukraine war world and should be reviewed'

French president Emmanuel Macron on Europe’s pro-organic, anti-biotechnology sustainable food strategy: ‘It was based on a pre-Ukraine war world and should be reviewed’

Financial Times | 
Brussels agreed two years ago to reform its farm practices as part of a drive to eliminate net carbon emissions ...
How the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stirring global food insecurity

How the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stirring global food insecurity

Consumers around the world will feel the “enormous impact” of Russia’s war on Ukraine through sharply higher food prices and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Nature fetishism’ — Affluent Westerners increasingly reject science, spreading unwarranted suspicions about nuclear energy, biotech-modified seeds and vaccines

Viewpoint: ‘Nature fetishism’ — Affluent Westerners increasingly reject science, spreading unwarranted suspicions about nuclear energy, biotech-modified seeds and vaccines

Simon Kuper | Financial Times | 
If you asked people to name the most dangerous ideologies of our time, common answers would be authoritarianism, racism and ...
Viewpoint: Harvard fellow on why crop engineering is crucial to addressing food security and growing sustainability challenges

Viewpoint: Harvard fellow on why crop engineering is crucial to addressing food security and growing sustainability challenges

Camilla Cavendish | Financial Times | 
We routinely assume that “natural” is better than “unnatural” when it comes to food. But it is more complex than ...
Vaccines appear less effective against virulently mutating COVID strains spreading through UK and South Africa

Vaccines appear less effective against virulently mutating COVID strains spreading through UK and South Africa

News that the B.1.1.7 [UK COVID] variant is evolving further mutations is worrying scientists, said Julian Tang, clinical virologist at ...
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‘Ecocide’? Green groups blast France for lifting neonicotinoid pesticide ban to save sugar-beet growers

Victor Mallet | Financial Times | 
France has moved to reverse a ban on a class of pesticides only weeks after it came into force, reigniting ...
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First experimental vaccine for coronavirus ready for human testing

Hannah Kuchler | Financial Times | 
Moderna has become the first company to release a potential coronavirus vaccine, with the Boston-based biotech start-up announcing on Monday ...
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CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna opposes germline-editing moratorium: ‘We’re going to have to figure it out’

Hannah Kuchler | Financial Times | 
Jennifer Doudna wears her responsibility lightly. The scientist who co-discovered Crispr does not appear to be weighed down by the ...
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Alternative meat producers struggle to secure supply of yellow peas as demand for plant-based burger skyrockets

Emiko Terazono | Financial Times | 
The soaring popularity of plant-based meat substitutes has shone a spotlight on a new star ingredient: the humble pea. From ...
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Tyson Foods ends investment in plant-based protein startup Beyond Meat

Emiko Terazono | Financial Times | 
Tyson Foods, the US meat producer, has exited its investment in Beyond Meat, the alternative protein company which is due ...
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Why EU gene-edited crop rules may not be as ‘far-reaching’ as scientists fear

Clive Cookson | Financial Times | 
Gene editing is the biggest technical advance in bioscience since the discovery of “recombinant DNA” technology....[t]hat....led to the commercialization of ...
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Scientists battle for consumer approval as crop gene-editing revolution advances

Clive Cookson, Emiko Terazono | Financial Times | 
Genome, or gene, editing is regarded by scientists as the biggest technical advance in bioscience since “recombinant DNA” technology — ...
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Diagnostics, drug discovery, disease: How CRISPR is solving medicine’s biggest problems

Anjana Ahuja | Financial Times | 
This is the public face of genome editing or, as it is sometimes called, gene editing: a technology capable of ...
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McDonald’s eyes lab-grown meat as food, agricultural companies aim to cut environmental impact

Financial Times | 
The world’s biggest purchaser of beef is watching the plant-based meat market. “Plant-based protein is something we’re keeping an eye ...
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Viewpoint: Chemical-free gardening is a myth

Robin Fox | Financial Times | 
So-called “nature” is teeming with chemicals, in soil, in plants, in rain and not only in nettles. Chemical-free gardening is ...
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Human testing on beta thalassemia patients: CRISPR readied for next milestone as early as this year

David Crow | Financial Times | 
[R]esearchers demonstrated how a gene editing technique, known as Crispr-Cas9, could be used to edit living human cells, raising the ...
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Fast-growing AquaBounty salmon could pave way for more genetically modified animals

Jennifer Thompson | Financial Times | 
When it was revealed over the summer that genetically modified salmon was now being sold in Canada, the backlash from ...
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CRISPR gene-editing technology expected to accelerate crop development

Clive Cookson | Financial Times | 
Genetically modified crops are continuing to spread across the world’s agricultural land. Last year they covered a record 185m hectares, ...
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Why ChemChina’s Syngenta takeover doesn’t mean China will quickly embrace GMO crops

Lucy Hornby | Financial Times | 
The head of one of China’s biggest chemicals companies has played down expectations the country will become more open to ...
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Monsanto glyphosate lobbyists barred from EU parliament

[Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)] have decided to bar lobbyists for Monsanto, the US agrochemical company, from the European ...
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Syngenta CEO overseeing ChemChina merger believes introducing GMOs to Europe near hopeless

Clive Cookson | Financial Times | 
[Erik Fyrwald, Syngenta’s current CEO], joined Syngenta in 2016, after many years in senior management with US-based chemical companies, most ...
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