Award presented to GM wheat genetic engineer Raquel Chan in Paris has reignited doubts about the crop and the technology. Report: Claire Robinson ...

In the Philippines, the farmer-scientist network MASIPAG has “strongly and unequivocally” condemned the government’s approval ...

EU lawmakers must “put public health first and reject any attempt to weaken Europe’s protections from pesticides” ...

Bayer has applied for approval in the EU of its new herbicide, icafolin, following applications in Brazil, the US, and Canada. The company states that glyphosate resistant weeds – which have thrived ...

ARCHE NOAH: A dark day for diversity and freedom of choice The European Parliament has voted for a wide-reaching deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). There was no majority for amendments ...

Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, ...

One-third of the US’s total annual pesticide use attributed to no- and minimum-till GM corn and soy. Report: Claire Robinson A widespread narrative holds that tillage (ploughing) can increase ...

No proof of health benefit claims, no evidence of food safety. Report: Claire Robinson Recently NPR ran a story reporting that the GM purple tomato, genetically engineered with genes from snapdragons ...

A new publication marks the entry into the peer-reviewed literature of some remarkable lab findings on synbio milk. Synbio is short for synthetic biology, an extreme form of GM. The synbio fake milk ...

Higher glyphosate levels were linked to hormonal shifts in a study of pregnant women Exposure to glyphosate herbicide was linked to changes in several hormones that support pregnancy and fetal ...

An article in the Journal of Medical Entomology critically reflects on the hype surrounding gene drive technologies, a novel self-spreading form of genetic modification that is designed to engineer ...

EPO practice of allowing patents on non-GM plants is becoming increasingly brazen, says No Patents on Seeds Recent decisions by the European Patent Office (EPO) show that existing bans on the ...