50 Years of Biotechnology Benefits
Experiments involving recombinant DNA (rDNA) began in laboratories just over 50 years ago. At this time in the early 1970s, scientists were beginning to understand …
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The Increased Obsolescence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Origins of the CPB The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) is a single-use sub-agreement of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The impetus for the …
What is Biotechnology in 2024 Anyways?
Before we get into the real grit and goo of what is Biotechnology (a.k.a biotech), let me first explain that next week, September 22 -28, …
2023 Year in Review – A Win for Science
From a science perspective, the 21st century started strong. The Human Genome was newly sequenced, offering glimpses of future cures and treatments. Products developed through …
Environmentalists are wrong on technological tweaks to agriculture
The following article was originally posted by the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), on October 17, 2022: Viewpoint: ‘Environmentalists are wrong on technological tweaks to agriculture’: …
Plants Are Carbon Sequestration Factories
The vital human-plant relationship Humans and plants have a beneficial relationship, we breathe out carbon which through photosynthesis, plants use for growth and in this …
Mexico to Willingly Increase Consumer Prices for Chicken
Still in Limbo In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly declared that Mexico would ban all imports of genetically modified (GM) corn …
The Social Costs of Spreading Misinformation
Mainstream media and politicians are complicit in the problem Biotechnology began to be applied to crop agriculture in the early 1980s, with the first commercialized …
Mexico to Phaseout GM Corn Imports and Glyphosate Use
On November 25th, 2019, the Mexican Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) invoked the precautionary principle to deny the importation of 1,000 tons …
25th Anniversary of the First GM Crop Approval in Canada
The dawning of a new era in ag sustainability Who would have fathomed how significant a day in March 1995 would become in the history …