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Slashes breast and skin cancer risk by more than a third

Question follows study in mice showing the GM Bt toxin Cry1Ac is immunogenic, allergenic, and able to induce anaphylaxis

Levels are higher than those found in urine

"The banana is dying and only GM can save it" is a recurring crisis narrative of the GMO lobby – but the real answers to the problem of disease in bananas go unmentioned

Ministers agreed that further consideration of the risks posed by gene editing techniques was needed before a decision could be made

Herbicide caused widespread crop damage after drifting across fields, lawsuit says

Major brands implicated

During the trial, Judge Bolanos sided with Monsanto on the company’s evidentiary objections – now she wants to take away Dewayne Johnson's damages award

GMWatch interviews a “Kremlin bot”

Antibiotic resistance development in bacteria increased by a factor of up to 100,000 times faster than occurs without the herbicide

Dr Caius Rommens developed GMO potatoes, but subsequently renounced his work. He explains why we should be wary of the products he created

Scientists are using new GM techniques such as CRISPR to develop more muscular and disease-resistant livestock that can endure intensive conditions without getting sick

Dr Caius Rommens developed GMO potatoes for Simplot – but he says most were stunted, mutated, or sterile, and many died quickly, like premature babies

Soil Association rejects suggestion by farm minister George Eustice that the recent ECJ ruling on genome editing should be ignored

Air New Zealand is offering its passengers the meatless Impossible Burger, which contains an ingredient made with GM yeast. Dr Robert Mann and Prof David Schubert explain the risks

PEST Committee chair Eric Andrieu MEP and his team have faced intimidation, suspected hacking, and an invitation to a secret meeting with the agrochemical industry

Conagen is developing food preservatives with synthetic biology (extreme genetic engineering) – yet calls them natural and non-GMO

Some US dairy farmers use a GM hormone that's banned in Canada

Broad-spectrum and selective herbicide sales to non-professionals to be banned by end of year

Authors of study downplay health implications by ignoring scientific evidence

GMO promoters are promising us nutritionally enhanced novelty fruit – but nature got there first. Report by Claire Robinson

State politicians are ignoring the problem because they're scared of Monsanto

Approvals violate the precautionary principle, says prosecutor

Engineering mosquitoes and salmon didn’t capture investors’ imagination – now Intrexon is looking to join the marijuana frontier