Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not every rose has its thorn, thanks to gene editing. James Satterlee, CC BY-SA As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with ...

Think You Avoid GMOs? These 10 Foods Might Surprise You Genetically modified crops are widely used in U.S. agriculture, but ...

A lot has happened since our last edition in March. Streamlined regulations for modern gene-editing techniques continue to become more common ...

Cibus recently announced that it would begin deploying genetically engineered rice to countries in Latin America.

They were at a much higher risk of malnutrition and missed out on the joy of a fresh Sumo orange in February. By Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg The chemical, dicamba, is used to control weeds ...

The European Commission launched a proposal in July 2023 to deregulate a large number of plants manufactured using new genetic techniques. Despite extraordinary attempts by the Spanish presidency to ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...

Genetically modified plants have been engineered for scientific research, to create new colours in plants, deliver vaccines, and to create enhanced crops. Plant genomes can be engineered by physical ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of ...

In 1983, the first genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, appeared in agriculture. Golden rice, engineered to combat vitamin A deficiency, and pest-resistant corn are just a couple of examples of ...