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NEWS ABOUT: genetically modified crops

genetically modified crops stories: 7 news summaries

Genetically Altered Yeast Ends Wine Hangovers

But remedy doesn't
sit well with purists

Jun 10, 09 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Canadian scientist has found a genetically modified hangover cure. He distributes an altered yeast, MLo1—which eliminates compounds that cause headaches in red and many white wines—to 40 winemakers in the US and Canada. But some vintners and winos are resisting the genetic alteration of their craft, which... More »

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genetically modified crops • hangover • wine industry

OPINION

Want to Save
the Planet?
Stop Dumping
on Frankenfood

Genetically modified products fight pollution

Jan 28, 09 11:22 AM CST
(Newser) - It's time for greenies to take another look at the frankenfoods they've been campaigning against. Consider the enviropig. It’s a pig with an extra gene that means less phosphorous in manure runoff, and it’s just one example of how genetic modification in agriculture can be good for the... More »

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agriculture • genetically modified crops • sustainability • environmentalists

 Science Supersizes  
 Thanksgiving 

Our fare is not the same as the pilgrims'

Nov 27, 08 2:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Thanksgiving food has undergone massive genetic changes in the centuries since the Pilgrims first prepared the feast, resulting in turkeys more than twice as big and corn six times as sweet. But human taste buds have evolved, too, meaning we don’t necessarily appreciate our new and improved fare any... More »

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agriculture • genetically modified crops • corn • DNA • turkey • crops • Thanksgiving • potatoes

(Newser) - Scientists have made a breakthrough that could dramatically boost the world's food production by making more land farmable, Wired reports. A slight change to a single gene allows plants to thrive in earth made toxic by aluminum, which currently renders nearly half of the world's soil useless for growing crops.... More »

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agriculture • farming • genetically modified crops • aluminum • crops • toxin • genetic engineering • genetic alteration

OPINION

 Anti-'Frankenfood' Activists
 Should Modify Stance

Opposition to genetically souped-up crops has run its course

Aug 4, 08 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The recent destruction of a research crop of genetically modified potatoes in England highlights how attitudes towards altered crops have changed, the Economist writes. A decade ago, Greenpeace activists caught in the act of destroying food crops were acquitted because of popular fear of the consequences of “Frankenfoods.”... More »

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food • hunger • genetically modified crops • famine • crops • experiments • academic research • environmentalists

Gene Discovery Holds Hope for Drought-Safe Crops

Scientists make botanical breakthrough

Feb 28, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a gene that controls how plants absorb carbon dioxide and release moisture in a breakthrough discovery that could help develop drought-resistant crops, reports the BBC. The gene that regulates the work of stomata, or pores on plant leaves, has been sought by biologists for decades. The gene... More »

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Africa • carbon dioxide • farming • drought • genetically modified crops • plants • genes • crops • Nature

Pharmaceutical Farming Generates Hopes and Fears

Benefits weighed against risk of food-supply contamination

Apr 30, 07 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The battle over genetic modification has a new player: "pharming," or pharmaceutical farming, which uses genetically modified plants to mass-produce drug compounds relatively inexpensively. By altering common plants—for instance, tobacco, which can be engineered to produce an HIV drug—researchers say pharming could transform the treatment of... More »

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medicine • food • health • genetics • pharming • pharmaceutical companies • genetically modified crops • plants

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