2 Reports At Odds On Biotech Crops
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Take your pick: The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmers around the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasing agricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and food security to millions of the world's poorest citizens.
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Biotechnology interests have scored big wins on Beacon Hill, but in Washington it's a different story.
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A controversy over genetically modified (GMO) crops brewed in Britain Monday after a major government and industry-backed study found no evidence they harmed the environment.
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Kansas rice growers get preliminary approval for a large-scale plan to grow genetically altered rice for pharmaceutical purposes. Is it safe? By the Associated Press.
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The biotechnology industry has failed to deliver on promises to revolutionize agriculture with plants genetically engineered to be healthier, drought resistant and tastier, a consumer interest group said Wednesday.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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The Food and Drug Administration will publish draft guidelines today that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes
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UK scientists pronounced some genetically modified (GMO) crops harmless Monday but European Union experts demurred, declining to approve another new GMO product for the eighth time in a row.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology--and what they mean.
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Looking over all the biotech stock stories I covered in 2004, I&#39;m pleased to report that I was right more than wrong. My &quot;win&quot; column does veer in the bearish direction, which is not ideal (I&#39;d prefer more
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Farmers around the globe planting genetically engineered crops enjoyed another bumper harvest last year even as political and financial pressure mounted from skeptical consumers in Europe and pockets of the United States, an industry-supported group said Wednesday.
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The Stowers Institute for Medical Research has spoken. If Missouri bans embryonic stem-cell research, as some legislators want, the institute will not build a second facility in Kansas City.
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Scientists poring over a mass of studies into the response of pests to genetically-modified cotton say they have found the first confirmation that insects have developed resistance to transgenic crops.
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Pollen from genetically engineered grass floated more than 12 miles from experimental plots and bred with conventional plants, raising concerns that the biotechnology industry can't control the "gene flow" of its creations.
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Â· Research aimed at producing green fuel  Â· Critics warn of terrorists creating new bioweapons
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Seed and biotech companies see a big opportunity in developing corn and other crops tailored for use in ethanol and other biofuels.
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EU biotech experts will debate next  week whether to allow imports of carnations whose color has  been genetically modified, possibly the first new approval of a  GMO plant in eight years, officials said on Friday.