Evidence on the genetically modified crop is overwhelming: it poses no dangers while offering fantastic life-saving potential ...

The ruling - which was based on a writ of nature, essentially the constitutional right to a healthy environment - could increase resistance to Golden Rice in Bangladesh, where anti-GMO activists are ...

Golden Rice, which is fortified with Vitamin A through genetic modification, is an example where GMO science could literally save lives. When it comes to developing countries, I think the key is ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the appellate court’s decision which ...

Golden rice, for example, is a GMO engineered to contain genes necessary to produce vitamin A in the edible part of the grain—something that doesn’t happen naturally in rice plants.

In 1983, the first genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, appeared in agriculture. Golden rice, engineered to combat ...

I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals ...

In addition, genetically modified plants may someday be used to produce recombinant vaccines. In fact, the concept of an oral vaccine expressed in plants (fruits and vegetables) for direct ...

Bacterial cells have been genetically modified to produce substances such as human insulin. The advantage of golden rice is that it can be used in areas where vitamin A deficiency is common ...

For 20 years, genetically-modified wheat traits were set on the back burner, but now GMO wheat is back on the brain and the possibilities, as well as potential challenges, are abuzz. GMO wheat ...