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Reason
January 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Dr. Strangelunch Or: Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food...   |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
November 2001
David Schardt |
Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? Using biotechnology to produce food has enormous potential: safer pesticides and less harm to wildlife, more nutritious foods, and greater yields to help feed the world's hungry nations. It's the risks of dicing and splicing Mother Nature that are harder to get a handle on... |
Wired
May 2004
Richard Manning |
Super Organics Forget Frankenfruit - the new-and-improved flavor of gene science is Earth-friendly and all-natural. Welcome to the golden age of smart breeding. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Arlene Weintraub |
The Outcry over "Terminator" Genes in Food Critics fear such safeguards present fresh genetic perils |
Food Processing
April 2013
Rory Gillespie |
Fear and Loathing Haunt GMOs It's difficult to balance the lack of negative scientific evidence against consumers' right to know what's in their food. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
What's So Scary About Rice? Biotech crops can make drugs, but they must be kept out of the food chain. |
AskMen.com
Sebastien Stefanov |
Are Modified Foods Dangerous? What foods are potentially dangerous, what are the risks and how can consumers protect themselves against this new industry? |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
Jon Birger |
The Battle Royale for Supercorn Corn that doesn't need so much nitrogen could cut America's $8-billion-a-year fertilizer bill, send less pollution into the water and less carbon into the air. Meet the scientists trying to build a better kernel |
Wired
April 2006
David Wolman |
Turf Warrior Jim Hagedorn wants to sell you the pest-proof, no-mow, genetically engineered lawn of the future. But first he has to head off a grassroots rebellion. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Kaskey & Ligi |
The Seed Makers Who Don't Pray for Rain Agricultural companies tweak crops to flourish with less. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2007
John Teresko |
DuPont Does The DNA Dance Biotechnology is reshaping the world through our medicine, food, agriculture, materials and fuel. DuPont sees biotech as the ideal tool to improve productivity, quality and sustainability. |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
The genetically engineered pause that refreshes Corn chips and sodas are just two examples of today's "Frankenfoods," says the author of "Dinner at the New Gene Cafe"... |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005 |
The Side Effects of Drugged Crops The Union of Concerned Scientists' Margaret Mellon explains the group's concerns about the dangers genetically altered food poses. |
Science News
June 21, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Treaty is Imminent for Genetically Engineered Foods The new treaty, when it goes into force next September, will require that documentation accompany all shipments of GMOs to and through nations that ratified the treaty, which so far doesn't include the United States. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2007
Carey & Carter |
Food vs. Fuel As energy demands devour crops once meant for sustenance, the economics of agriculture are being rewritten. |
Science News
September 14, 2002
Janet Raloff |
Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops. |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Jack Kaskey |
Monsanto Will Let Bio-Crop Patents Expire Genetically engineered soybeans will go generic, but woe to anyone that crosses the seed giant on new products. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
June 2000
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI Critics and advocates of crops that are engineered to carry genes from other species are waging a battle royal. The public will hotly debate biotechnology for years to come. Our goal should be to throw out any dirty bathwater, but not the baby. |
BusinessWeek
December 18, 2006
Carey & Aston |
Put A Termite In Your Tank Bio breakthroughs are promising much better ways to make ethanol. |
Chemistry World
January 18, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
BASF pulls out of Europe over GM hostility German chemical giant BASF has announced that it will halt the development or commercialization of genetically modified crops in Europe, and move its biotech R&D operations to the US. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Hooray for Stalemates! Government deadlock will likely bring more genetically engineered seeds to the EU, and good news for Syngenta, DuPont, and Dow Chemical. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
James J. Green |
Into the Future In the future, which may arrive very soon, your clients will live much longer lives. So will you. Every financial services company will be trying to serve these people. What's your 100-year plan? |
Reason
January 2006 |
Who's Afraid of Human Enhancement? Scientists, ethicists, American public policy makers and reporters debate the promise, perils, and ethics of human biotechnology. |
Food Processing
February 2006
Dave Fusaro |
Editor's Plate: Is biotechnology the future of food? Why not a conference on biotechnology, but with the food industry calling the meeting to order? |
Fast Company
October 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
The Future of Farming is in Nitrogen Efficiency A California biotech firm claims a gene that makes plants use nitrogen more efficiently can transform agriculture, make lots of money -- and slash greenhouse-gas emissions. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Genetically Modified Foods Before you make any snap judgments, take the time to learn what Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Is Monsanto Going to Seed? Several recent news headlines referring to its genetically modified products should give investors some reason to contemplate the risks that face this biotech giant. |
Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
Smithsonian
November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture. |
Science News
August 30, 2003
Janet Raloff |
Spying Genetically Engineered Crops Environmental Protection Agency scientists are exploring the use of satellites to monitor genetically engineered crops. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2006
Brian Gorman |
Syngenta's Potential Harvest The agricultural technology outfit is developing a seed with lots of potential. Syngenta remains under the radar for most investors, but if the company presses ahead with its GM wheat project, it's not likely to stay that way for long. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Bob Hirschfeld |
Good Breeding Ag-biotech is entering a period of vibrant growth as farmers, not only in the U.S., but Brazil, India and China increase usage of the highly productive seeds. Is Wall Street valuing shares of ag-biotech companies correctly? |
Science News
March 6, 2004
Alexandra Goho |
Fishy Alpha Males Lab experiments suggest that fish genetically modified to grow big fast could outcompete and thus threaten native fish in the wild. |
Reason
December 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Speculation, Innovation, Regulation In 1968 reason magazine predicted, technologically speaking, what life would be like today. How accurate were they? |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2009
Brian Orelli |
No Bumper Crop, but Bans Aplenty for Monsanto Germany's move to ban planting of Monsanto's genetically modified corn seeds won't be a major hit to sales, but it's the thought that counts. |
Fast Company
November 2009
David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2004
Tonya Vinas |
Making Waves Dubbed the 'third wave' of biotechnology, after medicine and agriculture, industrial biotechnology is promising to reshape manufacturing. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Science News
July 22, 2006
Ben Harder |
Demand for Ethanol May Drive Up Food Prices The production of ethanol from corn and other crops for fuel could drive up food prices. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Monsanto's Fallow Wheat Field Monsanto halts development of its controversial genetically modified spring wheat. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Briefly Noted: Future Biotech Farmers of America: Tomorrow's Table, by Pamela C. Ronald (a crop biotechnologist at the University of California, Davis) and Raoul W. Adamchak (a farmer who runs the university's student organic farm), tries to bring the two sides together. |
| National Gardening |
Corn Diseases, Insects, and Pests Most of the trouble gardeners have with corn is easily controlled. |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Laura Huckabee-Jennings |
Southern Emergence Why Huntsville, Alabama, will be the next biotech hotbed. |
Reason
December 2007
Ronald Bailey |
X Crops Anti-biotech activists continue to fret about the possible dangers of such foods. Yet they ignore the less controlled reshuffling of genes that occurs through the more widespread and longstanding practice of mutation breeding. |
Chemistry World
March 26, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Big Funding for GM Research China is to launch a huge research program on genetically modified (GM) crops by the end of the year, according to top agricultural biotechnology advisors. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
Jim Fink |
The Best ETF for 2007: H&Q Life Sciences Investors H&Q Life Sciences, a health-care fund investing in one of the highest-growth sectors of the U.S. economy, is trading at a discount to NAV. Consequently, it's now primed to be the best-performing ETF for 2007. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Monsanto Goes Brown to Make Green The agricultural giant is buying WestBred, a privately held wheat breeding company for $45 million. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Biotech's Fountain Of Youth A review of the book "More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement." The book by Ramez Naam provides a look at biotech's role in the future of medicine. |
