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Lab-grown meat is vapourware, expert analysis shows

24 September 2021

Laboratory bioreactor

Cell-cultured meat is "a fable driven by hope, not science, and when the investors finally realise this the market will collapse"

Study shows anti-mosquito pesticide pyriproxyfen link with microcephaly

23 September 2021

Baby with Microcephaly disease

Five years ago, GMWatch was correct to draw attention to dangers of the chemical. Report: Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews

Bill Gates — Do better, and listen to African civil society

23 September 2021

Gates only supports certain products of science — GM seeds, chemical fertilizers, and other inputs that farmers have to buy from large agribusiness corporations

India: GM Bt cotton growers protest over pest attack

23 September 2021

Seek special compensation from govt

Don't call new GM techniques "natural" – scientists

23 September 2021

The risks of new GM techniques such as gene editing increase over time and scale of production – so they must still be regulated

Chromothripsis: Bad news for gene editing

22 September 2021

Chromothripsis - the result of a single catastrophic event in a cells history

Discovery of "catastrophic" unintended effect of CRISPR gene editing may have caused slump in companies' stock. Report: Claire Robinson

Japan's gene-edited tomato another GMO white elephant

21 September 2021

Dodgy Gene Edited Tomato and white elephants

Gene-edited tomato is expensive and unnecessary

New report demands moratorium on gene drives

20 September 2021

Agriculture and bioweapons are focus of gene drive research

Did illegal GMO rice contamination come from Indian GMO field trials?

17 September 2021

Indian Paddy Fields

Academic report points to "large number of GM rice field trials" with poor biosafety controls. Report: Claire Robinson

Rules on GM farming and cars to be top of UK bonfire of EU laws

17 September 2021

Minister reveals plans to change laws inherited from EU

Illegal GMO rice: Products recalled around the world

8 September 2021

500 tonnes of Indian GMO rice were used in many countries to make, among other things, sweets for the Mars company

New GE wheat to be tested in UK field trials

8 September 2021

CRISPR plants reveal the complex risks of genome editing, reports Testbiotech

Groups slam Commission plans to deregulate new GMOs

3 September 2021

Company Logos

Commission reportedly aims to exempt some new GMOs from safety regulations within four years and change regulation for all new GMOs within 10 years

Tracking genetically modified animals

2 September 2021

Genetically Modified Cow with DNA strand

New method for detecting artificial transgenes

Experimental GM wheat trial goes ahead in UK

1 September 2021

Burnt toast

Wheat for people "who are unable to use a toaster properly" will be planted in open field

Tunisia plants (non-GM) seeds of hope against climate change

1 September 2021

Farmers are turning to the past to ensure a future by planting indigenous seeds as the North African country suffers at a time of drought, disease and climate change

GM Bt maize hits predator of armyworm pest

23 August 2021

Armyworm pest