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Top news of the week: 28.12.2021.

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@gmopundit shared
On Dec 24, 2021
RT @modestannedi: These three powerful women are leading a $10m project to accelerate the use of biotechnology to enhance food and nutrition security in 🇧🇩 and the 🇵🇭. This, is the photo of MY day! @Sarah_Evanega @MaricelisAceve1 @HaleAnnTufan @FarmingFutureBD 👇🏾 https://t.co/ZyVxzGnc1F https://t.co/EGPVp8L3tr
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$10M project opens pathways for more pest resilient food options in Asia

$10M project opens pathways for more pest resilient food options in Asia

The Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership, funded by a five-year $10 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of Feed the Future, the ...

@AgBioWorld shared
On Dec 25, 2021
India: Gene editing allows manipulations in crops that results in higher & nutrient-rich yield + improved, sustainable future; provides solutions to many of problems faced by the humankind, desirable traits with safe genetic changes. ⁦@shivenbajaj1⁩ https://t.co/HLJxPAoMR7
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Gene editing crucial for food security and environmental sustainability

Gene editing crucial for food security and environmental sustainability

Gene editing is most efficient since precise tweak to a living organism’s existing DNA can be made

@wef shared
On Dec 22, 2021
How to speed up the biomanufacturing revolution https://t.co/W3QIPtkE4j https://t.co/uiUHLyDmEK
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3 ways to accelerate the biomanufacturing revolution

3 ways to accelerate the biomanufacturing revolution

The biomanufacturing revolution is one of the most promising solutions to our most pressing global problems, from climate change to plastic pollution.

@AgBioWorld shared
On Dec 22, 2021
Gene editing is a refinement of earlier, less precise, less predictable tech for GM, but regulating it has been elusive. Initially, many nations treated it as a stringently regulated “GMO,” which posed conceptual problems from the outset ⁦@KHefferon⁩ https://t.co/24WkXPGrn6
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Regulation of Genetic Engineering Must Be Scientific and Risk Based. No Compromises.

Regulation of Genetic Engineering Must Be Scientific and Risk Based. No Compromises.

Gene editing, which allows precise edits to the genome, has been widely used for a variety of applications in laboratories worldwide since its discovery a decade ago.

@gmopundit shared
On Dec 27, 2021
RT @GeneticLiteracy: A genetically engineered American Chestnut variety could save the species from extinction — and has been endorsed by the Sierra Club. @EmmaKovak @TheBTI https://t.co/2Hss36yGRz
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Sierra Club endorsement of disease-resistant chestnut tree divides the anti-GMO movement

Sierra Club endorsement of disease-resistant chestnut tree divides the anti-GMO movement

Across the eastern seaboard, the majestic American Chestnut tree once dominated forests. A main source of timber for cabins, shipbuilding, and lumber, this

@prometheusgreen shared
On Dec 26, 2021
Viewpoint: Anti-science GMO rejectionists won’t disappear anytime soon but the past year has demonstrated their increasing irrelevance https://t.co/peP2kq0la7 via @GeneticLiteracy
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Viewpoint: Anti-science GMO rejectionists won’t disappear anytime soon but the past year has demonstrated their increasing irrelevance

Viewpoint: Anti-science GMO rejectionists won’t disappear anytime soon but the past year has demonstrated their increasing irrelevance

Just six years ago, America was engaged in a ferocious debate over GMO food labels; March Against Monsanto could assemble thousands of people for protests

@GeneticLiteracy shared
On Dec 23, 2021
An old myth has resurfaced that a GMO almost destroyed all life on Earth — but what's the real story? @AMPorterfield. https://t.co/PQIBatoEX5
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Did you hear the story about the GMO that almost destroyed the world?

Did you hear the story about the GMO that almost destroyed the world?

An old myth has resurfaced that a GMO almost destroyed all life on Earth — but what's the real story?

@AgBioWorld shared
On Dec 27, 2021
@MaddMiche Monsanto doesn’t exist anymore, got gobbled up by Bayer. Before that in 2017, Monsanto controlled 34% of the seed market, far less than what many critics claim. DuPont 25%; Syngenta < 9%; Bayer 5% https://t.co/vzxB7zRUPa https://t.co/iIz9FStz0d
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Does Big Ag dominate crop research and the global seed supply, controlling the world food market?

Does Big Ag dominate crop research and the global seed supply, controlling the world food market?

Consolidation in the global seed market has not stifled innovation or spiked the prices farmers have to pay for seeds.