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CRISPR and Other Emerging GE Technologies in Plants and Trees
CRISPR Resources From the Blog
The Washington Post: The future of paper could come from gene-edited trees
An article appeared in The Washington Post on August 1, 2024 that examined gene-edited trees. Anne Petermann, Co-founder and International Coordinator of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, was quoted in the article: “The potential for genetic contamination of wild forests...
Indigenous Knowledge vs Genetic Engineering: Humans as part of the Earth or apart from the Earth
Photo Caption: Chief Ninawa from the Brazilian Amazon speaks about the threats facing Indigenous Peoples in the region. Photo credit: PetermannThe Global Justice Ecology Project, representing the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, sent a team to the Indigenous Environmental...
Press Release: GJEP requests USDA, Office of Inspector General investigate SUNY GE American Chestnut debacle
For Immediate Release July 8, 2024 Contact: Steve Taylor (314) 210 1322 New York – July 8th, Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) has requested that the United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of Inspector General investigate what has been...
Massive Biolab Boom in Berkeley Spurs Residents, Allies to Launch Biolab Watch
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,...
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...