Lately, Silicon Valley, in the form of Colossal Biosciences has entered the field of conservation, promising to even bring ...

Report: Claire Robinson Mexico has approved the world’s first RNAi (RNA interference – a GM gene silencing technology) ...

The last Review in our current series on glyphosate – Glypho-gate, Law and War: Part 1 – looked at how Bayer-Monsanto’s years of intense lobbying for legal immunity for Roundup suffered setback after ...

Two lawsuits directed against new European rules for a new generation of GMOs (so-called new genomic techniques – NGTs) were published today on the official judicial portal of the European Union. In ...

Crossing American chestnuts with naturally blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts results in hybrids with substantial blight resistance; GM trees continue to disappoint. Report: Claire Robinson The ...

Belgium has granted permission for emergency use of an RNAi pesticide even though it's not approved at EU level POLLINIS and Nature & Progrès Belgium have taken legal action and filed an appeal for ...

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 ...

Rats fed GM yeast-derived protein soy leghemoglobin – the burger’s key ingredient – developed signs of toxicity. Report by Claire Robinson and Dr Michael Antoniou The Impossible Burger is a ...

As the food and climate crises continue to cause suffering around the world, one under-appreciated solution — neglected crops — could be a powerful tool to alleviate both crises in one of the worst ...

Escape underlines yet again the inadequacy of GMO regulations around the world. Report: Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews Fish genetically engineered to glow in the dark have escaped from fish ...

The European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – recently ran a consultation on the regulation of so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs), which create new GMOs through gene editing ...

In his 2022 book Regenesis and his subsequent campaigning with WePlanet, Guardian columnist George Monbiot has championed “precision fermentation” (the PR term for synthetic biology – synbio – or ...