In April, the Philippines’ Supreme Court heeded farmers’ and activists’ calls to look into the safety promise of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain created to tackle the vitamin A ...

Farmers in the Philippines may be able to continue growing golden rice genetically modified to combat malnutrition, despite a court decision revoking the permit for planting it. The Philippines ...

HAIKOU: Researchers in Hainan province have developed a novel rice variety packed with the same health-boosting compounds ...

Despite its growing utility, chowing down on genetically modified rice doesn’t appeal to everyone. In fact, it has sparked heated debate for decades. For example, you may have heard of golden ...

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture has a vision: to become the first country to allow the commercial production of golden rice, a 20-year-old genetically modified crop that could prevent ...

Golden rice, a new type of rice that contains ... approved the safety of one locally developed strain of genetically modified rice, known as the Bt rice, in 2009, but commercial production has ...

A Philippine court has blocked the commercial propagation of genetically modified golden rice because it said conflicting scientific views gave rise to "severe" health and environmental safety ...

Golden rice (GR), a genetically modified (GM) crop, is a public-sector product deliberately designed to add vitamin A to diets to deal with the deficiency. Its inventors, Ingo Potrykus of the ...

issued a cease and desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified crops Bt Eggplant and Golden Rice, developed by the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) and the ...

In the Philippines, for example, activists have been protesting the production of Golden Rice, a type of genetically modified rice harvested at scale for the first time last year. Unlike regular ...

University officials have admitted that Tufts-affiliated researchers violated scientific ethics laws after feeding genetically modified rice to children in China without proper consent in a study ...

A court in the Philippines has sided with green campaigners and banned a genetically modified (GMO ... Three years ago, the rice-dependent nation became the first to approve commercial cultivation of ...