Despite its potential, CRISPR/Cas technology has faced significant regulatory hurdles in the European Union (EU) in the agritech sector. Under the EU’s Directive 2001/18/EC (“the GMO Directive ...

This, he said, improves the quality of crops, and is more acceptable in the global market than GMO crops. Often called CRISPR, gene editing allows researchers to disable a gene or add one for a ...

Petri dishes containing sprouting barley embryos that have received spliced genetic material derived through the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

A genetically modified organism, or GMO ... Another natural genetic modification tool we use in the lab is called CRISPR, which we borrowed from a different species of bacteria.

With the cultivation of genetically modified plants banned in nearly all EU countries, the European Commission wants to treat ...

While first-generation GMOs involved transplanting a gene from one organism into another, new genomic techniques – including CRISPR/Cas9 ‘genetic scissors’, which won its inventors the ...

For hundreds of years, cultural scepticism of the unfamiliar has successfully infiltrated our groupthink, says Mario Creatura ...

such as genetically modified rice. Gene editing is a technology that allows precise modification of an organism's genome. It uses tools like CRISPR-Cas9 to cut DNA at specific locations, enabling the ...

Gene-edited crops may help adaptation to climate change The centre, funded primarily by the British government, operates on ...

The innovations will open up the cut fruit market, cut food waste, unlock new export markets, and reduce shipping costs, claims Tropic.

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