Insights and Stories on Gene Editing

CropLife not driving CFIA policy, agency says

Oct. 26, 2022 at 8:50 am CDT

The National Farmers Union and a clutch of other organizations have asked Canada’s federal ag minister to replace the president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, citing questions about the provenance of regulatory proposals on gene-edited seed. CFIA officials, however, reject the NFU’s allegation that the metadata attached to the […]

Maryland man recovering after ‘breakthrough’ pig-heart transplant

Jan. 10, 2022 at 6:39 pm CST

By Julie Steenhuysen

U.S. surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient

Oct. 19, 2021 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Nancy Lapid

Regulations on gene-edited crops to be eased in England

Sep. 28, 2021 at 7:18 pm CDT

By Reuters

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

Jan. 18, 2021 at 3:09 pm CST

By Reuters

USDA limits review requirements of some biotech farm products

May. 15, 2020 at 1:23 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday a rule that will simplify or waive agency reviews of certain biotech farm products, including plants and seeds that have been genetically modified or engineered. As a result, some products could be sold to farmers without a USDA […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Gene-edited chickens planned in bid to halt next pandemic

Jan. 21, 2019 at 7:54 pm CST

London | Reuters — British scientists are developing gene-edited chickens designed to be totally resistant to flu in a new approach to trying to stop the next deadly human pandemic. The first of the transgenic chicks will be hatched later this year at the Roslin Institute at the University of […]

By Kate Kelland

GMO rules cover plant gene editing technique, top EU court says

Jul. 26, 2018 at 4:40 am CDT

Brussels | Reuters — Crops obtained by plant breeding technique mutagenesis should fall under laws restricting the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Europe’s highest court said on Wednesday, in a victory for environmental campaigners. The biotech industry had argued that much of mutagenesis, or gene editing, is effectively little […]

By Robert-Jan Bartunek

Limagrain says GMO protests could force R+D relocation

Jan. 17, 2018 at 5:11 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — Limagrain, the world’s fourth-largest seed maker, will consider moving its research activities out of France if field trials in its home market continue to be sabotaged by opponents of genetically modified crops. The French co-operative group was targeted last month by protestors who invaded test fields […]

By Reuters

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

Dec. 8, 2015 at 7:43 pm CST

London | Reuters — A British animal genetics firm, working with U.S. scientists, has bred the world’s first pigs resistant to a common viral disease, using the hot new technology of gene editing. Genus, which supplies pig and bull semen to farmers worldwide, said on Tuesday it had worked with […]

By ben-hirschler

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