Rough Road Ahead for Biotech Centers

Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the US By Joseph Cortright and Heike Mayer Executive Summary The biotechnology industry is concentrated within nine of the nation’s 51 largest metropolitan areas. These nine […]

EU Study Shows GE Crops Costly to Farmers

A-maize-ing Chardon LL fiasco

The Mexican Case: Implications for Biosafety

Attachment 1 Astonishing Denial of Transgenic Pollution By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho (Institute of Science in Society) A paper published in Nature last November provoked a furore of responses from the pro-biotech community. The journal succ […]

Mexican Government Moves to Deal with GM Contamination

Manual, Video on Assessing GMOs

(Announcement on the Manual) Manual for Assessing Ecological and Human Health Effects of Genetically Engineered Organisms Authored by a group of scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including Mark Wheelis (University of Californ […]

Absence of Credible Science on Safety of GMOs

Informed citizen opposition has slowed adoption of GM crops to a crawl, providing much-needed breathing space for senior scientists, lawyers, and physicians to reflect upon the issues and begin to speak out. […]

Worldwide Initiatives Against GMOs (updated)

Worldwide Initiatives Against GMOs (updated) […]

Ecology and Genetics: A Complex Interaction

This monograph addresses three fundamental questions: 1. Is there a systemic relationship between genetic structure of species and the ecosystems they need for survival? 2. What are the implications of that relationship for the ecological damage that may be caused by inter-species genetic engineering? 3. Is it possible to predict ecological damage that may arise from inter-species genetic engineering with reasonable confidence? […]

Farmer Schmeiser Faces Lawsuit

A judge yesterday ordered a Canadian farmer to pay the biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. thousands of dollars because the company’s genetically engineered canola plants were found growing on his field, apparently after pollen from modified plants had blown onto his property from nearby farms. […]