On the train coming back home from the Mantova Food & Science Festival I asked an Italian sign language interpreter the signs for CRISPR and genome editing. Fascinating!
How do you sign CRISPR?
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Edited crops, organic farming and Greenpeace Mag
The German publication Greenpeace Magazin interviewed Urs Niggli, the director of FiBL, a leading research institute on organic agriculture. In his opinion genome editing is going to be useful and edited crops should not be classified as GMOs but assessed on a case by case basis. The text below by Frauke Ladleif was translated and posted with the kind permission of Greenpeace Magazin/Hamburg. Continue reading
The art of learning from microbes
By Antonio Polito
Do you remember Dolly, the sheep cloned 20 years ago? I was one of the many going on pilgrimage to visit her in its golden prison at the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh. And like other reporters I was worried while talking with Dolly’s “father” Ian Wilmut, about practical and ethical implications of the breakthrough, which appeared huge at the time. Media were boiling with awe and outrage: is human cloning the next step? It would be evil or blessing? Are we playing God? Continue reading
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