Two Simplified Briefings Introducing New GM Technologies and Biosafety Risks

Two new briefings from the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) focus on the new GM technologies and their associated uncertainties and risks. […]

Organic Agriculture Maintains Its Exclusion of All GM Technologies

The organic movement is expanding its stand on the exclusion of GM from organic systems, to include new technologies like synthetic biology and new plant breeding techniques. […]

Consumers Call for Regulation of New Genetic Engineering Techniques

EU and US consumers call for products derived from new genetic engineering techniques to be regulated and labeled as GMOs. […]

Four Steps Forward, One Leap Back on Global Governance of Synthetic Biology

Parties to the CBD have made progress in the global governance and oversight of synthetic biology. However, progress on risk assessment work under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety has stalled. […]

Biodiversity Convention Considers Genetic Sequence Data and Benefit Sharing

Negotiators at the CBD meeting in Cancun, Mexico are working to resolve tough issues surrounding how to share benefits from the use of genetic sequence data from plants, animals, microbes and other biodiversity. […]

Risks of GM Crops Engineered to Utilise RNA Interference

NThis Biosafety Briefing focuses on GM crops engineered to utilise RNA interference. Such GMOs present a unique set of risks as compared with those generated with classical transgenic approaches. […]

Biosafety aspects of genome-editing techniques

This Biosafety Briefing examines the biosafety aspects of genome-editing techniques, including the CRISPR system. […]

Ensuring Adequate International Oversight of Synthetic Biology

This briefing paper outlines the 5 key actions that need to be taken by Parties to the CBD and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, in order to ensure that there is adequate international oversight of synthetic biology. […]

Genetic “Extinction” Technology Rejected by International Group of Scientists, Conservationists and Environmental Advocates

At the 2016 World Conservation Congress, members of IUCN, including NGOs, governments, and scientific/academic institutions, voted to adopt a de facto moratorium on research into gene drives until the IUCN has fully assessed their impacts. […]

Gene-Drive Modified Organisms Should Not Be Released, Say Scientists

The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has concluded that gene-drive modified organisms are not ready to be released into the environment pending further research on the scientific, ethical, regulatory, and social consequences. […]