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Jimmy Botella: Waiter, there is a gene in my soup!
Our second nomination today for Best Biotech Talks is Jimmy Botella, Professor of Plant Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. Jimmy has no pretensions,...
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Anti-GMO Charles Benbrook has lost his Washington State University affiliation
Some very good news today — Genetic Literacy Project has just published an in-depth profile of Benbrook – who is widely quoted as an “independent scientist” warning of the dangers of genetic...
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Jonas Kathage reviews “A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified...
The work was funded exclusively with public money, in part from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme...
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Wilhelm Gruissem reviews “A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically...
Abstract: What has long been suspected is true: genetically modified (GM) crops do have real benefits for the environment and for the economic well-being of farmers. A meta-analysis of peer-reviewed...
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Important transparency questions for Thacker and Seife
This is a small inquiry about “Who Benefits?”. Regarding the now-retracted PLOS blog piece “The Fight Over Transparency: Round Two“, I have been puzzling over the authors’ motivations. Who benefits...
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Open letter from 21 top European plant scientists to decision makers in Europe
The de facto moratorium on transgenic plant approvals has been detrimental for applied plant science and has effectively eliminated possibilities for publicly funded scientists and small companies to...
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“I’ve been FOIA ed”: Alison Van Eenennaam on being in crosshairs of anti-GMO...
Alison Van Eenennaam, Ph.D. is an animal geneticist and Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam has been...
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New York Times: Your reporting fed McCarthyite attacks on Kevin Folta
Jean Goodwin is an expert in rhetoric at Iowa State. Dr. Goodwin specializes in achieving useful communication among parties who deeply disagree. My primary research/teaching focus is in argumentation...
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Do wild animals avoid GMO corn? Join the experiment!
This is exciting – a group of serious scientists have launched a crowd-sourced experiment to test the hypothesis that wild animals such as squirrels and deer prefer non-GMO corn, and avoid GMO corn....
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Steve Savage: “A Rational Analysis of the USDA Pesticide Residue Data”
A guest post by agricultural scientist Steve Savage, proprietor of Applied Mythology. (Updated 1/6/16 to reconnect missing illustrations. This post first appeared on Sustainablog 6/15/11) When the...
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