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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

She points to so-called golden rice, which is genetically modified to produce beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A by the body. It gets its golden hue from the nutrient and is designed ...

“We welcome this move by the Supreme Court in issuing the Writ of Kalikasan on Golden Rice and Bt eggplant and its recognition that these genetically modified crops pose a grave danger to our ...