Most People Fine With Food Biotechnology, Survey Says
While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of ...
While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of ...
Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 04.25.2012
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome...
Posted 04.16.2012
By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff Published: 04/16/2012 09:23 AM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet Once plentiful, the American chestnut tree has largely disappear...
John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 04.22.2012
Monsanto's monopoly limits farmers' choices and threatens our livelihoods. But America's antitrust laws were enacted to protect us from this very situation. These laws are premised on the belief that competitive markets produce the best products, and they need to be enforced.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012
These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 03.05.2012
A few days ago it was hard to find a pundit who didn't think that the 2012 campaign was going to be all about jobs.They thought that value issues were off the table. Wrong again.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 02.05.2012
So far in this election cycle, the only vaguely relevant recognition of the importance of leadership in biotechnology for the country's future was a polemical and uninformative exchange on vaccination policy.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 11.14.2011
Even in an election cycle that is dominated by the economy, feelings about cultural issues continue to be the most raw, especially where the power of modern medical science seems to conflict with tradition values. Welcome to the era of biopolitics.
Posted 10.18.2011
Bullets famously bounced off of Superman, but ordinary people may be able to achieve similar feats, if one researcher in Holland has her way. A pr...
Posted 09.13.2011
When they rebuilt the Six Million Dollar Man, the doctors of the 1970s TV series made him "Better...stronger...faster." Now, if San Francisco artist T...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- Global agribusiness giant Monsanto is under federal investigation for using cash incentives to persuade distributors to use Roundup, the...
Gary Hirshberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Baseless attacks within the organic community do not serve the organic cause. Instead of fighting with each other, we need to fight Monsanto and the forces that are ignoring Americans who support organic and want the right to choose.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
After all weather effects of 21st century climate change have disappeared from the earth's surface, two destructive impacts traceable to George Bush's policies will yet remain.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011
We have two agricultural systems in this country, both claiming to be good for farmers and both claiming to be sustainable.
Angela Haines | Posted 05.25.2011
This December marks the 30th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act which in effect gave birth to the idea of tech transfer.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/30 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people...
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
There's overwhelming evidence showing that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are unsafe. And there are plenty of sources for non-GMO corn.
Jose W. Fernandez | Posted 05.25.2011
One way we can expand the benefits of biotechnology is to develop regulatory systems based on science, not politics. Impractical legal obstacles are stopping genetically-enhanced crops from saving millions from starvation.
Jill Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011
The new genetically engineered salmon AquaBounty Technologies seeks to commercialize is the AquAdvantage salmon -- the first genetically engineered animal to directly enter the U.S. food supply.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
It is clear to the experts that the current generation of GMOs do not live up to the hype continuously broadcast by biotech companies and their promotional East Coast wing--the federal government.
Jason Silva | Posted 05.25.2011
If we want to live in a world that cures the worst diseases that plague us or use bacteria to create renewable energy sources, we need innovators and entrepreneurs in biology and biotechnology.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/32 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people...
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/36 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people...
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/39 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people...
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/43 When Forbes magazine declared Monsanto as the Company of the Year for 2009, millions of surprised people ...
Food Safety News | Posted 05.11.2012