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European Commission proposes loosening rules for gene-edited plants.

August 22, 2023

“GMOs have historically faced stiff opposition in Europe. The draft law would enable the release of new crop varieties, such as disease-resistant potatoes that would require far less fungicide, says Matin Qaim, an agricultural economist at the University of Bonn. […]

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USDA confirms it won’t regulate CRISPR gene-edited plants like it does GMOs. 

April 15, 2018

I find this distinction interesting. Humans have been “modifying” crop and animal genes since the invention of agriculture by selecting for desired variants. Transgenic modification, where scientists literally splice in genes from unrelated organisms, has proven to be much more […]

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