Precisely what is “precision fermentation”? The terminology itself deserves attention and you know I have opined about the co ...

In an op-ed for Le Monde, a group of over 60 scientists are calling on the European Commission to suspend the draft directive ...

Tropic Biosciences UK Ltd has applied for permission to market in England a GM banana that has been gene-edited not to go ...

The European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – recently ran a consultation on the regulation of so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs), which create new GMOs through gene editing ...

The European Commission has proposed the deregulation of open releases of GM micro-organisms (GMMs) into the environment, including a ‘fast track’ procedure to approve releases of some GMMs. The ...

Huge thanks to all of those who have already donated to our fighting fund against the attackers who drove our website off-line with a sophisticated hacking attack. Thanks to your generosity we’re now ...

Two lawsuits directed against new European rules for a new generation of GMOs (so-called new genomic techniques – NGTs) were published today on the official judicial portal of the European Union. In ...

To date, genetic engineering in the agricultural value chain has been regulated in the EU through strict precautionary and coexistence measures. So far, almost no genetically modified crops have been ...

Our last Review – Glyphosate, Fire and Science – looked mainly at the new studies showing the multiple harms of glyphosate and at the growing evidence that glyphosate safety reviews were ghostwritten ...

Jennifer Doudna and colleagues used an AI model system to make better CRISPR/Cas gene-editing tools, but the results are underwhelming. Report: Claire Robinson* For many years GMWatch has made the ...

GMWatch knocked down but not out! We’ve been a little quiet of late, but it’s not because we’ve given up – it’s because our GMWatch website was catastrophically hacked and forced off-line. Our hugely ...

The European Commission has launched consultation processes on the implementation of the controversial EU regulation on plants derived from new genetic engineering (or new genomic techniques, NGTs).