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 ...

India takes the plunge, but some crop sectors remain hesitant. May 4, 2025, could be a significant day in the history of ...

Beyond human health, biotechnology is fundamental to securing our food future ...

Recent biotechnological innovations like genome - editing in crop breeding are seen as major achievements to address the challenges of food security and also to reduce the burden of agriculture to ...

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: a biotech company releases hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild to control the mosquito population.

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time. Compromise for GMO food labeling rules struck in Senate Senators have ...

GMOs, short for genetically modified organisms, are subject to much controversy. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), GMO seeds are used to plant over 90% of all maize (corn ...

Hong Kong-based rice supplier Golden Resources has unveiled the “Beautiful rice lab” campaign as an extension of its latest branding initiative. Aiming to promote premium rice culture ...

The Malaysian Academy of Sciences is likely to advise the government to press on with field trials of genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes created by Oxitec of Oxford. Oxitec uses ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Several years ago, at a lab near a massive experimental farm in Guangdong Province in China, scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified pig embryos ...

Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing number of new chemicals that have never been seen before by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being ...