2017

NGOs back call for EU-wide non-agricultural pesticide ban

Greenpeace says UK government’s “gagging law” favours big business and refused to register as a campaign group in run-up to 2015 election

Simplot’s director of marketing and communications says the company is holding off allowing commercial growth of Innate potatoes in Canada until there's a proven market for them

Although CRISPR can precisely target specific stretches of DNA, it sometimes hits other parts of the genome, causing DNA mutations that are not predicted by the computer algorithms that are widely used by researchers to look for off-target effects

21st Century Wire says…
Could a Corbyn win in the upcoming election turn things around?
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, has come out in support of the idea that Western foreign policy decisions have at least partly contributed to the rise of terror attacks like that in Manchester last weekend.

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New analysis by cancer expert shows that the EU’s food safety and chemicals agencies failed to spot eight instances of increased tumours in rodents following glyphosate exposure

There are formidable social, economic, and environmental reasons why GM mustard should not be cultivated, writes former India central government cabinet secretary T.S.R. Subramanian

(MEE)  A US strike targeting Islamic State fighters in a Mosul building in Iraq in March killed at least 105 civilians when the blast caused IS weapons to explode, a US general said on Thursday.

After Bihar and Kerala, West Bengal has decided not to allow the cultivation of GM mustard seeds in the state. But prime minister Modi doesn’t seem to be listening