On 4 December 2025, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on a ...

Cottonseeds could help reduce hunger and add new revenue for farmers. One researcher has been working for decades to make ...

U.S.-based Norfolk Healthy Produce got Health Canada’s approval to bring the bioengineered The Purple Tomato (TM) to Canada ...

On the 4th, the European Union (EU), long dubbed the “GMO (genetically modified organisms) regulatory stronghold” for its strictest standards, tentatively agreed to ease regulations on gene-edited ...

Cottonseeds could help reduce hunger and add new revenue for farmers. One researcher has been working for decades to make ...

CRISPR, the gene-editing technology which won its creators the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is most well-known for its ...

It's a common belief that insecticide use has been decreasing because of agricultural advances, but the widespread use of ...

Europe’s firewall against genetic modification gets a major crack under a new deal. Crops tailor-made using new gene-splicing techniques should face fewer regulations than genetically modified ...

European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules that pave the way for gene editing, a technique that will help farmers ...

The European Union has reached a preliminary deal on how to regulate gene-edited crops in a move that could ease the development of new varieties in a region long wary of biotech innovations in food.

Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.