Note: Living Carbon is one of the biolabs in the Bay Area The following is a Press Release announcing the launch of Biolab Watch, and Biolab Watch's submission of a letter to Berkeley’s Mayor and City Council. Press Release: September 19, 2023 Contact: Jeremy Gruber,...
CRISPR and Other Emerging Technologies
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...