Insights and Stories on Gene Editing

Quebec pork company calls for transparency around gene-edited pigs

Sep. 12, 2025 at 4:25 pm CDT

Quebec-based pork company duBreton is calling for transparency around meats from gene-edited pigs on concerns that a lack of mandatory labelling will confuse consumers, and dilute certification claims. The organic sector is also calling for labelling rules.

A cloned newborn horse stands next to its surrogate mother in an enclosure at a horse birthing hospital, in San Antonio de Areco, near Buenos Aires, Argentina July 29, 2025.

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo

Sep. 2, 2025 at 10:04 am CDT

By Leila Miller Reuters

Gene edited pig gets green light in America

May. 12, 2025 at 11:55 am CDT

By Robert Arnason

China to develop gene-editing tools, new crop varieties in biotech initiative

Feb. 14, 2025 at 10:30 am CST

By Reuters

New Zealand to loosen gene editing regulation, make commercialization easier

Aug. 13, 2024 at 9:51 am CDT

By Lucy Craymer Reuters

EU governments fail to agree on gene-editing rules despite patent exception

Jun. 26, 2024 at 4:58 pm CDT

A last-ditch attempt by EU governments to break a deadlock over relaxing regulations on gene-edited crops failed after countries including Poland rejected changes to the text that exempted patented seeds from the measure.

By Reuters

Gene editing race, illegal seed use in crosshairs at World Seed Congress

May. 28, 2024 at 1:45 pm CDT

Canada is now green on global maps shown at the World Seed Congress in Rotterdam. There’s regulatory certainty for gene-edited crops after regulations were announced in April. That means Canada can play a part the rapid growth of innovation around the world.

By John Greig

World Seed Congress addresses global supply chain challenges

May. 27, 2024 at 1:26 pm CDT

The World Seed Congress is on in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a discussion of the major issues facing the seed and crops sector. The major issues on the agenda include the challenges that the decline in free trade and globalization brings to major suppliers of seeds, the acceptance of gene editing and the technology involved in that process.

By John Greig

China approves first gene-edited wheat in step to open up GM tech to food crops

May. 8, 2024 at 10:44 am CDT

China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial growing of genetically modified food crops.

By Mei Mei Chu Reuters

Gene-edited crops clear CFIA’s regulatory bar

May. 3, 2023 at 7:01 pm CDT

Plants gene-edited for efficient use of water or nutrients or to better withstand pests or drought now won’t have to clear the same regulatory hurdles in Canada as any crops that are modified for herbicide tolerance or include foreign genes. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Wednesday announced updated guidance […]

By Dave Bedard

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