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- Would Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Have Signed that GMO Letter? From what I have read about him, I am pretty sure that Richard Feynman would not have signed the recent letter in which a large percentage of our living Nobel laureates urged Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)…
- The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe” In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues …
- Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and…
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Tag Archives: Genetic Engineering
Edible Vaccines Against COVID-19? Another Case of Genetic Engineering Déjà vu
Recent reports indicate that plant scientists in Mexico and Canada are working to produce “edible” vaccines against COVID-19. But the idea that fruits or veggies could be genetically engineered (GE) to produce edible vaccines that could be easily shipped, stored … Continue reading
Gene Editing’s Extra DNA Problem: Déjà Vu All Over Again
UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do not, after all, comprise the “same outcome [that] could be achieved by breeding in the farmyard,” like she and her collaborators … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged ag biotech, Agrobacterium, Alison Van Eenennaam, antibiotic resistance, Calgene, CRISPR, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO, Meat, Nature Biotechnology, Plant Cell, Recombinetics, Regulation of GMOs, Science, Technology, UC Davis, unintended changes in GE crops, unintended effects, USDA
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U.S. Grain Industry Believes USDA APHIS’s “New Proposed Rule [for regulating GMOs] Is Fundamentally Flawed”
I’ve got to give credit to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for persistence. USDA APHIS has proposed new rules for regulating genetically engineered (GE) crop plants (AKA genetically modified organisms: GMOs) … Continue reading
Disappointment in the First 25 Years of GMO Foods
The world’s first, commercially available GMO (genetically modified organism) created for human or animal food was first sold in U.S. grocery stores twenty-five years ago today. I can still remember the excitement my colleagues and I at Calgene, Inc. felt as … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged children, China, FDA, Genetic Engineering, GMO, Monsanto, New York Times, Reuters, rice, Roundup, Science, sustainability, Technology, transparency, USDA, vitamin A
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UC Professors Weigh in on Glyphosate (AKA Roundup) and Carcinogenicity
Glyphosate, the “most widely used herbicide in the world,” is in the news a lot lately, largely because the first of thousands of lawsuits, filed by folks who used Monsanto’s Roundup (or other glyphosate-based herbicide products) for decades–who assumed it was … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged conflicts of interest, EPA, Genetic Engineering, glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup, Science, WHO, World Health Organization
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New Salk Institute Study Reveals More Detailed Picture of “Scrambled Nature” of Gene Insertions in GMOs
Plant molecular biologists have known for decades that the techniques they use to genetically engineer plants are error prone and can result in GMOs with unintended: mutations in host plant genes, insertion of vector backbone DNA sequences, small duplications or … Continue reading
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Tagged Agrobacterium, FDA, Genetic Engineering, insertional mutations, Monsanto, mutagenic process, NK603 corn, Regulation of GMOs, Science, Technology
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Golden Rice: Of Good Intentions, Insertional Mutants, Human Error, and the Need for Better Regulation of GMOs
After learning that the genetically engineered (GE) Golden Rice “event” being bred into varieties of rice favored by Indian farmers turned out to have a mutation—a mutation created as a result of the genetic engineering process itself (you can check … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged ag biotech, agricultural biotechnology, Agrobacterium, beta-carotene, children, China, Gates Foundation, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMOs, golden rice, Gordon Conway, insertional mutations, Monsanto, NK603 corn, rice, Science, Syngenta, Technology, Vandana Shiva, vitamin A, Zeneca
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Food Evolution Film Neglects to Mention Important Facts…Like Glyphosate is a Probable Human Carcinogen
The film Food Evolution, despite being narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been called “a slick piece of GMO propaganda” by Marion Nestle, a prominent nutrition scientist at NYU who was interviewed for it. In response to Nestle’s tweet on … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Bruce Chassy, Calgene, Charles Benbrook, David Shaw, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Food Evolution, Fred Gould, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, glyphosate, GMO, IARC, Kevin Folta, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Nature, New York Times, NK603 corn, propaganda, rat feeding studies, Regulation of GMOs, Richard Feynman, Roundup, San Francisco Chronicle, Seralini, transparency, World Health Organization
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Update on “Extra DNA” and Other Problems with Crop Genetic Engineering
I received an email recently from a distinguished professor of plant sciences who encouraged me to update my knowledge of the “extra DNA” problem I mentioned in an article published in the January 2018 issue of Comstocks magazine. He sent me … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged FDA, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMOs, herbicide-resistance, Monsanto, Nature, NK603 corn, rat feeding studies, Seralini
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Monsanto, Henry Miller, and the FDA
I have been reading with interest various articles reporting on the trove of internal documents obtained from Monsanto during the discovery phase of a federal multidistrict litigation against that company that is currently pending in the United States. (The documents, … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Forbes, Genetic Engineering, glyphosate, GMOs, Henry Miller, Monsanto, New York Times, Regulation of GMOs, Roundup, Science, The Nation
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