In the late-1990s, agriculture company Monsanto began developing wheat genetically modified to resist the company’s Roundup weed killer. Monsanto ended the project in 2004, and to this day, no one is ...

Scientists have crafted a bacterium incapable of surviving without human assistance. Using this strategy to build genetically modified organisms would prevent those GMOs from escaping into natural ...

The debate about whether GMOs pose an environmental risk has been running for many years. A GMO, or genetically modified organism, is a plant or animal that has been genetically engineered to create a ...

BOSTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) --The term GMO, short for "genetically modified organism," comes with a lot crippling baggage -- it's a bloated word full of foreboding futures. The truth is, GMOs are already ...

BEIJING—A former employee at a state laboratory that studies genetically modified foods said his superiors had him falsify reports, reviving deeply held skepticism in China toward the controversial ...

The DTS GMO laboratory has been audited by NATA and in 2003 achieved accreditation to ISO 17025 for the detection of genetically modified organisms. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology, ...

A coalition of 16 mayors in the southern Philippines have declared their towns free of genetically modified organisms. "We do this because organic agriculture and GMOs cannot possibly co-exist, as ...