KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Asteady increase in food prices in recent years is pushing Asian countries to consider softening ...

Nigeria's approval of genetically modified crops has sparked outrage online over concerns that food supply will be over-reliant on Western agritech companies. Food containing GMOs has been available ...

Bayer going after Pfizer for patent infringement is a forerunner for widespread abuse of intellectual property claims in food ...

DNA is similar to a set of instructions written using four letters - A, T, C, and G - which tell the body how to function and develop. These four letters form a unique combination for each organism, ...

Recently, an NGO (non-governmental organization) in Russia—the National Association for Genetic Safety–began working closely with the Russian Duma to enact a set of laws criminalizing the introduction ...

Is it safe to eat genetically modified foods (GMOs)? Will they be destructive to the environment? Are GMOs the answer to world hunger? These questions remain largely unanswered as the debate over ...

The conversation on GMOs has recently gained widespread attention. It refers to an organism whose genetic material has been altered in the laboratory using genetic engineering techniques such as ...

— -- U.S. farmers and those in developing countries helped drive a surge in new plantings of genetically modified crops around the globe in 2011, even in the face of resistance from Europe and ...

BERLIN - Germany has initiated a move to stop the growing of genetically modified crops under new European Union rules, documents seen by Reuters showed on Monday. German Agriculture Minister ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

German life sciences giant Bayer believes a change to EU policy on gene-edited crops has the potential to reshape Europe’s €6bn seed market and vindicate its troubled acquisition of US rival Monsanto.