In a major technical accomplishment, a team of researchers has inserted three genes into rice to allow the plant to produce beta carotene, the precursor required for animals to make vitamin A.

I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals ...

Adverse health outcomes of VAD include increased mortality, night blindness, corneal scars, blindness and measles among children, as well as night blindness among pregnant and lactating women.