Ethos Chocolate launched the first GMO chocolate brand. We unboxed, tasted, and unpacked this campaign to answer the question: Was it Bitter or Sweet?
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March for Science with Biology Fortified!
Tomorrow, thousands of people across the United States and even the world will March for Science. As both a celebration of knowledge and discovery and as a protest against political interference and rejection of scientific facts, the March for Science…
Pope Francis issues cautious statements about GMOs
(Editor's note: Introduction by Karl Haro von Mogel) On Thursday the 18th of June, the Vatican published an encyclical written by Pope Francis - an open letter addressed to "every living person on this planet." The bulk of this encyclical…
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The fruits of climate change
The other day I found myself looking through the plant patents held by the Zaiger's Genetics team. The Zaigers, a family of plant breeders led by a UC Davis Plant Pathology graduate, have developed some very cool fruits. You may…
Genetically Modified Foods Could Be A Solution To The Effects Of Climate Change
Written by Jack Lundee Earth is a sustainable planet that produces life, shelter, and sustenance to billions of its inhabitants, but the climate of this planet is changing and with that we must also change. To continue to reap the…
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Africa at Crossroads
This was a pleasant surprise in my news feed. Israel Deladem Agorsor, in the department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana just published a column on GE crops and the future of African…
Tuesday at BIO
Although half of my day was spent traveling to the BIO convention There was still plenty for me to see starting at lunchtime. During Tuesday's lunch, they gave awards to high school students for biotech-related research, and the Governor of…