Scientists in Uganda have injected banana plants with a protein to make them resistant to deadly bacterial diseases.
Africa could be able to feed itself in a generation, says a new study being presented to five African presidents Thursday.
The FDA holds a hearing on the labeling of food made from AquAdvantage Salmon, a genetically engineered Atlantic salmon.
The debate over genetically engineered salmon should be put in the proper context: As the world's population grows at an accelerating pace, so does the consumption of seafood.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has to decide if genetically engineered salmon is safe enough for human consumption and is spending three days to consider safety and labeling issues.
Dennis Lange, brewery owner and food expert, looks at genetically-altered food and the case for labeling products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a hearing Monday as it considers whether to approve genetically engineered salmon for human consumption.
I am and always will be completely against any food that has been altered genetically for human consumption. And never, in the 30-plus years I have been a restaurant chef, has one customer requested a genetically modified organism for dinner.
The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to hold public hearings on genetically engineered salmon.
The head of a government laboratory studying genetically modified plants said Monday that activists caused major damage during their weekend attack on a research facility in eastern France.
A scientist works on a controversial project to genetically engineer disease-resistant livestock. Go to VBS.TV for more.
Cloning has been a controversial issue since German embryologist Hans Spemann first made a pair of adorable, genetically identical salamander twins out of a single egg, way back in nineteen-dickety-two.
For years Craig Venter has attracted outsized attention and sometimes vitriol for challenging the status quo. Jealous scientific rivals have equated this maverick scientist, inventor and entrepreneur to Hitler, and Time magazine once described him as the "bad boy of science." Yours truly once compared him in a book to Dr. Faustus, the Renaissance physician who gave up his soul to the devil in exchange for receiving valuable scientific knowledge that incidentally made him rich and famous.
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