August 28, 2019

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Scientists say sustainable forestry organizations should lift ban on biotech trees (Nature)

July 24, 2019

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CRISPR conundrum: Strict European court ruling leaves food-testing labs without a plan - Scientists struggle to detect the unauthorized sale of gene-edited crops whose altered DNA can mimic natural mutations

June 20, 2019

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Pick a leader with vision for the Food and Agriculture Organization (Nature)

April 24, 2019

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Australian gene-editing rules adopt ‘middle ground’ - Updated regulations allow scientists to use some genome-editing techniques in plants and animals without government approval (Nature)

January 9, 2019

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Transgenic trees face rocky path from farm to forest - Report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights thorny issues with releasing engineered trees into the wild (Nature)

October 31, 2018

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Use the patent system to regulate gene editing (Nature)

October 5, 2018

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Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do - A better-tasting tomato highlights problems with Europe’s outdated approach to gene editing (Nature)

July 26, 2018

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CRISPR plants now subject to tough GM laws in European Union - Top court’s ruling threatens research on gene-edited crops in the bloc (Nature)

March 23, 2018

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Rethink public engagement for gene editing - The breadth of social and moral questions raised requires a new architecture for democratic debate, insists Simon Burall (Nature)

A global observatory for gene editing - Sheila Jasanoff and J. Benjamin Hurlbut call for an international network of scholars and organizations to support a new kind of conversation (Nature)

January 26, 2018

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European court suggests relaxed gene-editing rules - Judicial opinion says restrictive regulations may not apply to plants and animals bred using CRISPR technique (Nature)              

November 9, 2017

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The bitter battle over the world’s most popular insecticides - As regulators consider a ban on neonicotinoids, debate rages over the harm they cause to bees (Nature)

June 13, 2017

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Harmonize conflicting regulations for genetically engineered plants and animals - Researchers must seize the chance to inject scientific sense into US governance of modified crops and livestock (Nature)

February 24, 2017

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Gene editing in legal limbo in Europe - The European Union is dragging its feet on gene-editing rules and scientists should push the issue (Nature)

February 6, 2017

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Deadly new wheat disease threatens Europe’s crops - Researchers caution that stem rust may have returned to world’s largest wheat-producing region (Nature)

January 26, 2017

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Plant biologists welcome their robot overlords - Old-school areas of plant biology are getting tech upgrades that herald more detailed, faster data collection (Nature)

January 20, 2017

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India’s first GM food crop held up by lawsuit - Scientists accused of deceiving the public about benefits of transgenic mustard (Nature)

December 1, 2016

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A new global research agenda for food (Nature)

September 16, 2016

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Agricultural R&D is on the move - Big shifts in where research and development in food and agriculture is carried out will shape future global food production (Nature)

July 14, 2016

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U.S. researchers and policymakers are now free to tackle the most-pressing GM issues - A US Senate decision on labelling genetically modified foods paves the way for a redirection of resources (Nature)

May 20, 2016

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The race to create super-crops - Old-fashioned breeding techniques are bearing more fruit than genetic engineering in developing hyper-efficient plants (Nature)

April 19, 2016

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Gene-edited CRISPR mushroom escapes US regulation - A fungus engineered with the CRISPR–Cas9 technique can be cultivated and sold without further oversight (Nature)

April 13, 2016

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Breeding controls - Scientists must help to inform regulators wrestling with how to handle the next generation of genetically engineered crop (Nature)

April 7, 2016

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Wild relatives of modern crops, and varieties that have fallen from common usage, contain traits that may be of great value to modern plant breeders. How can these valuable genetic resources be best maintained? (Nature)

March 11, 2016

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Policy: Reboot the debate on genetic engineering (Nature)

Nature special: CRISPR

Welcome to the CRISPR zoo - Birds and bees are just the beginning for a burgeoning technology (Nature)

January 28, 2016

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India needs home-grown GM food to stop starvation (Nature)

January 21, 2016

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Italian papers on genetically modified crops under investigation - Work that describes harm from crops was cited in Italian Senate hearing (Nature)

December 22, 2015

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Genome-editing revolution: My whirlwind year with CRISPR - Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of the revolutionary genome-editing technology, reflects on how 2015 became the most intense year of her career — and what she's learnt (Nature)