More than 100 Nobel Laureates are calling on Greenpeace to reconsider its opposition to GMOs. Yesterday, representatives of the group of Nobel Laureates, Sir Richard Roberts, Professor Martin Chalfie and Professor Randy Schekman held a press conference at the National Press Club to explain why…
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In this month’s “Better Know a Scientist”, I’m interviewing Dr Nir Oksenberg. He works in a lab that actually makes transgenic crops! Nir’s career seems to have taken a very windy road: he completed his PhD at UCSF studying a…
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Written by Steve Savage. Graphs by Steve, based on FAO and Geohive data. Norman Borlaug would have been 100 years old last week. He has been called "The Man Who Fed The World," and "The Father of The Green Revolution." Norm…
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Written by Kevin Folta Republished from Illumination. Ask any scientist what papers truly intrigued or inspired them. All of us have a few. One of my favorites hit Cell Research back in summer of 2012. In this paper, Zhang et al…
KQED Quest, based in San Francisco, has just posted a half-hour special on GMOs called Next Meal: Engineering your Food, by Gabriela Quirós. In the wake of proposition 37 in California there has been a lot more public awareness of…
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Hi everyone, Frank N. Foode™ here. I was hanging out, smelling some Tulips in Madison, WI, and none other than Dr. Michael Grusak stopped by from the Baylor College of Medicine to give a seminar on his nutritional research into…
Editor's note: republished with permission from The Biology Files. By Emily Willingham A study from a Chinese group led by Chen-Yu Zhang of Nanking University and published in Cell Research, has uncovered the fascinating result that when people eat rice, they…
Read More Why did The Atlantic publish this piece trying to link miRNAs and GMOs?
Improved Salinity Tolerance of Rice Through Cell Type-Specific Expression of [sodium pump] AtHKT1This work presents an important step in the development of abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants via targeted changes in mineral transport.Previously, cell type-specific expression of AtHKT1;1, a…
Read More Australian genetics group open up new avenues to salt-tolerant rice
