Norfolk Plant Sciences has completed a pre-market consultation process with the FDA for its antioxidant-packed GM purple tomatoes.
GMOs still have an image problem when it comes to food. But attitudes are evolving, insists one startup on a mission to change hearts and minds, one purple tomato at a time.
With Patrick Brown stepping aside, there are a few different directions the company could take in pursuit of profitability.
There is “no non-engineered way” to fight climate change at scale and in time, says chief science officer Ellen Jorgensen.
The UK startup offers an AI-driven gene editing platform that uses CRISPR technologies to build more resilience in plants and better crop sustainability.
The US startup embeds “living sensors” in seeds that can signal plant distress, helping to mitigate crop loss and over-reliance on pesticides.
Chew’s Plant-Based Burger Report Card found the Beyond Burger to smell like “pet food,” while Impossible’s effort is “more reminiscent of liver.”
In a world first, the GM crop – developed in the early 1990s to provide higher levels of vitamin A – was recently approved for commercial planting in the Philippines.
The maker of plant-based ‘bleeding’ burgers said it applauds the court’s decision to “slap down [CFS] – an anti-science, anti-GMO activist group that’s been spreading lies for years.”
The Japanese government has affirmed its “determination” that Sanatech Seed’s new tomato will be regulated as a GE, rather than a GMO, product.
Editor’s note: Ponsi Trivisvavet is CEO at Inari, a seed genetics startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The views expressed in this guest article are the
Pairwise is also working on blackberries without seeds and cherries without pits in pursuit of its aim to get more Americans snacking on fruits and veggies.
When consumers can understand just bit more about what biotech is, how it works, and how it relates to them personally, they’re supportive of GMO, according to Jennifer Armen, vice president at Okanagan Specialty Fruits.
Agricultural futurist Robert Saik is a professional agrologist and certified agricultural consultant who founded Agri-Trend which was acquired by Trimble in 2015.
Despite pervasive consumer disapproval, scientists and seed companies have far from abandoned GMOs as a subject of research and development and some new approaches using GM technology could address the more pervasive consumer concerns.
iBio uses highly automated indoor farming methods to manufacture pharmaceutical drugs and, according to Barry Holtz, president, it already has much of the technology that today’s food-growing indoor farms are just starting to develop.
Bayer, through Condon, has indicated that it is aware the merger presents an opportunity to reset public opinion about controversial technologies like GMOs and Dicamba, but the executive announcement last week suggests a complete overhaul is not in the cards.
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Plastomics is working to shorten the pipeline for developing new seeds with multiple transgenic traits, increasing the speed and lowering the cost of designing new seeds using chloroplast engineering.
“I think CRISPR and other gene editing tools mark a real turning point in the conversation,” Sam Kass, partner at Acre Venture Partners and former senior policy advisor for nutrition in the White House, told the audience of the Food Loves Tech.
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