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...
CRISPR and Other Emerging Technologies

Another Major Unintended Effect From CRISPR
Jan 30, 2020
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
Jan 2, 2020
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
Nov 15, 2019
"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
Nov 13, 2019
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?
Jul 18, 2019
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?
Jul 18, 2019
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
Jun 28, 2019
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
Jun 27, 2019
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!
Jun 24, 2019
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...