Scientists, organisations, and representatives of political parties call on Greek MEPs to vote against deregulation of new ...

Trilogue negotiations between the EU institutions resulted in the removal of these important safeguards, a decision which ...

Deregulation of new GM crops will increase seed market concentration, undermine resilience of the food system. By Corporate Europe Observatory and GMWatch Industry lobby documents reveal a fierce ...

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 ...

SAFE regrets legislative steps to make "new GM" techniques free from mandatory requirements applicable to other GMOs and warns that this will mean the end of organic food as we know it SAFE – Safe ...

Some scientists who argue for deregulation deny outdoor gene editing is possible. But patents and the scientific literature tell a very different story. Report: Claire Robinson We’re used to gene ...

Bayer going after Pfizer for patent infringement is a forerunner for widespread abuse of intellectual property claims in food and farming if the planned GMO deregulation goes ahead. Report: Claire ...

"Most EU governments want to allow untested and unlabelled GM plants to be released into the environment and onto our plates" – Save Our Seeds A qualified majority of EU Member States on 19 December ...

Study finds CRISPR/Cas gene editing causes “chromatin fatigue” – another surprise mechanism by which it can produce unwanted changes in gene function. Report: Claire Robinson and Prof Michael Antoniou ...

A deal was reached on the new GMOs (NGT, "new genomic techniques") deregulation file in the "trilogue" discussion between the EU Parliament, Council of the EU, and Commission last night. It's a ...

Several recent Biopolitical Times posts (1, 2, 3, 4) have called attention to the alarmingly rapid commercialisation of “designer baby” technologies: polygenic ...