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New GMOs can be accurately identified – plant variety protection organisation UPOV
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Molecular markers provide an accurate signature of each variety
Trump administration proposes allowing GE crops on thousands of acres of wildlife refuges
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Plan would green-light growing crops engineered for increased herbicide use on dozens of refuges throughout southeastern US
Call for retraction of EU-funded G-TwYST study on GM maize
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Study claiming no adverse effects from a GM maize is unreliable, writes Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini in a new peer-reviewed analysis
Andean, African farmers condemn misuse of digital sequence information of potatoes
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A new kind of biopiracy
Roundup weedkiller harms biodiversity in freshwater systems
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Study finds resistance to the herbicide comes at a cost of plankton diversity
Glyphosate and other pesticides linked with increased risk of childhood leukemia
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Exposure to carcinogenic farm pesticides increases pregnant mother’s risk of her child developing leukemia, study finds
Spreading the risks: When genetically engineered organisms go wild
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First scientific review of risks due to offspring of GE plants persisting in natural populations
Non-GM breeding and agroecology save the banana?
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After decades of hype claiming only GM can save the banana from extinction due to disease, non-GM breeding and agroecology have succeeded where GM has failed
Yet more problems with CRISPR – with consequences for food safety
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Things go wrong "more often than you would think" – scientist commenting on unwanted duplications of genetic insertions
Missouri peach farm awarded $265M damages in suit against BASF and Bayer
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Dicamba herbicide drifted onto the farm from other farms planting GM dicamba-tolerant crops
Fraud in German laboratory casts more doubts on 2017 re-approval of glyphosate
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Entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure challenged by new findings
Gene-edited animals must be regulated to protect public health – US FDA
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Edited cattle containing antibiotic resistance genes are FDA's "Exhibit No. 1" in arguing for strict rules. Report: Claire Robinson
US court blamed Roundup for causing cancer – then Canada defended the herbicide
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Ag Ministry officials worried the government's position on health risks of Canada's most widely used herbicide was "contradictory", following a court ruling blaming it for causing cancer
"Healthy" soybean oil causes genetic changes in the brain linked to neurological disease
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Study shows the most widely consumed edible oil in the US could be bad for the brain – and that oil from soybeans genetically engineered to be healthier is just as bad
Kellogg's will phase out pre-harvest glyphosate use
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"This is a huge development" – children's health researcher
Scientist warns scrapping the EU's strict GMO rules threatens health
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Gene editing "could lead to unexpected toxins or allergens" in food
Do tests by a US government agency show glyphosate doesn’t damage DNA or cause oxidative stress?
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The US National Toxicology Program’s findings contradict the conclusions of the cancer agency IARC. But there are problems with their argument
Environmentalists alarmed as Bayer builds Latin America's largest seed factory in Chile
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In Chile, the largest seed exporter in the southern hemisphere, Bayer is expanding the GM seed production factories of its subsidiary Monsanto
India’s intelligence agencies investigate corporate backers of group distributing illegal seeds
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GMO cheerleaders use “disinformation layer cake” to promote corporate front group. Report: Jonathan Matthews
Will lab-grown food really save the planet?
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Claire Robinson of GMWatch and others take a critical look at George Monbiot's vision of farm-free food
Risk assessment of herbicide-tolerant GM soybeans exposed as inadequate
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Assessed crops are sprayed with far lower levels of herbicides than are used in real-farm conditions, so risks are underestimated
Researchers assumed CRISPR-mediated disruption of genes was turning them off – but they were wrong
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One-third of gene knockouts via CRISPR are not knockouts at all – and there are serious implications for gene-edited food plants. Report: Claire Robinson
New tool for rapidly analyzing CRISPR edits reveals frequent unintended edits
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"Many more unintended changes to DNA around the site of a CRISPR repair than previously thought"