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CRISPR and Other Emerging GE Technologies in Plants and Trees
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Testbiotech: Gene editing found to cause chaos in the genome of tomatoes
Testbiotech is warning that the planned deregulation and large scale releases of New GE organisms could threaten natural resources needed by future generations. A June 20, 2023 article by Testbiotech discusses recent scientific findings that demonstrated...
Perspective Magazine Examines Falsehoods Behind Engineering Trees For Profit
Perspective Magazine examines Falsehoods Behind Engineering Trees for Profit A March 15 2023 Perspective article by Wade Graham examines how the the tree-planting carbon offset market, which is worth billions and a key component of net-zero strategies, is based on...
“Fixing” Trees With Genetic Engineering
GE trees – touted as a high-tech fix for ecosystem and climate woes – are poised to create a treadmill of profitable problems 30 November 2022 Source: Watershed Sentinel by Lucy Sharratt The promise of a simple technological fix is compelling. Whether it is world...
GMWatch: New Scientific Paper Gives Overview of Risks Associated With Genetic Engineering
New genetic engineering techniques pose numerous risks GMWatch 12 August 2020 A new scientific paper published in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe gives an overview of the risks associated with gene-editing procedures (new genetic engineering) for plants and...
Webinar Series Explains Gene Drives
GENE DRIVES EXPLAINED. WHAT, WHY, HOW? The authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) are holding webinars on social, technological & scientific, environmental, ethical and legal questions of this new technique in June 2020 via Zoom – for free....
Yet more problems with CRISPR – with consequences for food safety
GMWatch 22 February 2020 Things go wrong "more often than you would think" – scientist commenting on unwanted duplications of genetic insertions Adding to the list of problems that can occur with CRISPR, a new study shows that when the CRISPR/Cas system was used in an...
Another Major Unintended Effect From CRISPR
Photo: GM Watch GM Watch 11 January 2020 Claire Robinson A new study reveals yet another major unintended effect from the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool – with potentially serious implications for the food safety of gene-edited plants. The study found that CRISPR-Cas9...
Science Supports Need to Subject Gene-Edited Plants to Strict Safety Assessments
Via GMWatch Compiled by Claire Robinson, editor, GMWatch.org. Technical advisor: Michael Antoniou, PhD, Head, Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s College London, UK We’ve been asked to produce an up-to-date list of scientific papers that support the need to...
CRISPR Inventor Calls for Regulation
"CRISPR Cas9" by National Institutes of Health (NIH) is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 One of CRISPR’s inventors has called for controls on gene-editing technology MIT Technology Review November 15, 2019 Antonio Regalado Jennifer Doudna says governments need to pay more...
Australia Approves Release of GM and CRISPR Organisms Without Risk Assessment
Federal Government and ‘opposition’ sign off on uncontrolled genetic experiment Wednesday, 13th November 2019 Friends of the Earth is accusing the Federal Government and Labor Party of submitting Australians to a nationwide genetic experiment, for failing to support a...
Árvores para resolver os problemas do mundo?
Desde as árvores transgênicas para a bioeconomia até a proposta de um trilhão de árvores e os Negócios para a Natureza Por Anne Petermann e Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project Este relatório examina os eventos e pesquisas divulgados ao longo de duas semanas,...
¿Árboles para resolver los problemas del mundo?
Desde los árboles transgénicos para la bioeconomía hasta la propuesta de un billón de árboles y los Negocios para la Naturaleza Por Anne Petermann y Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project Este informe examina los eventos e investigaciones publicadas a lo largo...
Advisory: International Tree Biotechnology Conference ending in Disarray
Caption: Scientists, foresters, organizers and others from around the world protest GE trees at the European Union in Brussels in 2015. CORRECTION: Due to the US Fourth of July holiday, the detailed analysis of the IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference will not be...
Earth Minute: “Editing” the Genomes of Trees for Industrial Profits with CRISPR
This week's Earth Minute features Ruddy Turnstone of GJEP and the Campaign to STOP GE Trees reporting from the 2019 IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference in Raleigh, NC about the promotion of CRISPR, an extreme genetic engineering technology, to "edit" the genomes of...
Post #2: IUFRO Tree Biotechnology 2019: Brought to you by the makers of CRISPR!
The CRISPR Craze? Or CRISPR Crazed? 24 June, 2019 by Anne Petermann “Should we really be manipulating the heredity of future generations given our lack of knowledge about so many things.” “Humans are very good at inventing things, but they are very, very bad at...
CRISPR linked to evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses
Linking CRISPR-Cas9 interference in cassava to the evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1678-3#Abstract Published 25 April 2019 From the abstract: Background Geminiviruses cause damaging...
European Court of Justice Closes CRISPR Loophole, Rules That Organisms Produced by New Gene Technologies are GMOs
European Court of Justice Closes CRISPR Loophole, Rules That Organisms Produced by New Gene Technologies are GMOs Landmark Decision Should Inform New US Biotechnology Regulations Statement by Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director New York- On July...
Breaking: European Court Placing Gene Editing Technique Under GMO Law
BREAKING: European Court Places Gene Editing Technique Under GMO Law This ruling could result in the declaration of gene edited trees or seeds imported into Europe as GMOs. - Campaign to STOP GE Trees The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today published...