The commencement of the field trials comes just days after the High Court dismissed several petitions, that were challenging ...

Genetically modified crops offer sustainable solutions to food production challenges, but long-term effects on health and ...

He has reassured Kenyans that despite the absence of substantiated evidence that GMOs are harmful to human health, the ...

Moreover, the implementation of tolerance levels for seed contamination would not deal with the problem of allergenicity of seed contamination with nonauthorized GMOs from field trials ...

A recent court decision halting the production of the genetically modified crops Golden Rice and Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) eggplant may impact on the country’s food security and may cause ...

But it wasn't until the 1970s that scientists first employed bioengineering to transfer genes from one organism to another to produce "transgenic" crops. When these genetically modified organisms ...

As Kenya prepares to commercialise genetically modified crops, there is resistance from some farmers and campaign groups, who question their safety. "You are making what we eat worse than it is ...

New genomic tools like genome sequencing and the ability to stack genes through CRISPR gene editing mean that there will soon ...

A new seed hybrid has the potential to increase yields by 10% and represents one of the first major innovations for the crop ...

Fearful of Genetically-Modified Crops? You’re Too Late Nearly all the soybeans, corn, and cotton produced in the U.S. is now genetically modified, says the USDA.

The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) is ready to release into the market three more varieties of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops once a pending court case is heard and determined.