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How CRISPR can protect berry crops from disease-carrying fruit flies — without pesticides

Dan Friedell | Voice of America | 
As winters get warmer and springtime comes earlier, farmers in states such as Maine and Minnesota are having more trouble ...
Biofortification of staple crops: How the mundane pearl millet grain was transformed into a ‘hunger fighting’ gladiator

Biofortification of staple crops: How the mundane pearl millet grain was transformed into a ‘hunger fighting’ gladiator

Anjana Pasricha | Voice of America | 
Pearl millet has long made up the bulk of diets of rural communities in drought-prone regions of India and Africa ...
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Video: How CRISPR can help us feed the world

Shelley Schlender | Voice of America | 
Bread and chocolate are staples of the American diet. And a scientific team in California is working hard to make ...
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GMO nutrition-enhanced corn in development could cut cost of animal feed

Voice of America | 
Researchers in the United States say they have discovered how to genetically engineer corn to produce a kind of amino acid usually ...
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Vancomycin: Supercharged drug could reverse antibiotic resistance crisis

Jessica Berman | Voice of America | 
Scientists have tweaked a powerful antibiotic, called vancomycin, so it is once more powerful against life-threatening bacterial infections. Researchers say ...

Zimbabwean scientists develop drought and heat-tolerant maize

Voice of America | 
Scientists in Zimbabwe say they have developed new heat- and drought-tolerant varieties of maize that may be ready for sale ...
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With egg-freezing ban in place, single Chinese women obtain procedure abroad

Anna Matteo | Voice of America | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Modern science has done ...
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Specter of Agent Orange haunts introduction of GMOs to Vietnam

Lien Hoang | Voice of America | 
When Vietnam moved economically from communism to capitalism in the 1980s, it enjoyed an agriculture boom that lifted millions from ...

Genetic analysis of sorghum predicts best varieties for drought, stress

Voice of America | 
Differences in a crop plant's genes can help predict how a particular variety will respond to a drier or hotter ...

GMO breeding: Years of practice but still divisive

Aida Akl | Voice of America | 
Proponents and critics of genetic modification (GM) have been arguing over the potential impact of genetically modified organisms (GMO) on ...

Amid maize famine, more Kenyans call for lifting GMO ban

Hilary Heuler | Voice of America | 
With a virus threatening the crops of up to 70 percent of Kenya's maize farmers, a number of lawmakers are ...

Expanded research puts global food security on horizon

Kim Lewis | Voice of America | 
Scientists and food experts have high hopes in achieving global food security as the Cinsultatvie Group on Internnational Agricultural Research ...

China’s GMO debate stuck in ‘stalemate’ between scientists and anti-GMO activists

Voice of America | 
The debate in China over expanding the use of genetically modified crops has reached a stalemate. Analysts say that despite ...

In Europe, debate intensifies over GMO food imports from US

Ana Holtz-Ward | Voice of America | 
The European Union has some of the strictest regulations in the world for genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, requiring extensive ...

Growing controversy over GMO bananas in Uganda

Hilary Heuler | Voice of America | 
Uganda is poised to introduce genetically modified organisms as parliament considers a bill to regulate them.  The modified crops could ...
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