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SA Worldview-By Emily Waltz- There’s only one place to find comprehensive global data on biotech crops, and it’s not the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization or the World Bank or any national agency. It’s a tiny not-for-profit called the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech…

Naghmeh Abiri, Iran Biotechnology Information Center (RBIC)- Eight new transgenic goats with simplified method of cloning were born at Royan Institute for Biotechnology Research in Iran. Cloning techniques usually require advanced equipments and microscopes but we were able to ...

The Annual Meeting of ISAAAs Biotechnology Information Centers (BICs) was held on April 4 to 5, 2013 at Le Soleil de Boracay, Aklan, Philippines. Dr. Randy Hautea, Global Coordinator of ISAAA, gave the opening message to the group, emphasizing on the latest developments in ...

An international conference presenting the key findings of a research project Adoption and Uptake Pathways of GM/Biotech Crops by Small-scale, Resource-poor Asian Farmers in China, India, and the Philippines and their implications to biotech adoption particularly in ...

More than 400 million acres of genetically engineered (GE) crops have been grown in more than three dozen countries around the world. Plants produced in this way—also known as “genetic modification,” or GM—constitute the most rapidly adopted agricultural technology in history. Over three trillion servings of foods with…

More than a hundred members of the Philippine scientific and academic community, government agencies, regulators, farmers, private sector, media, and other stakeholders took part in a Special Seminar and Media Conference on the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2012.

Cows cant catch HIV but they can produce antibodies against the virus/ Scientists injected cows with HIV protein, and collected resulting antibodies from the milk/ they plan to create a cream for women to prevent HIV transmission.

SME Times- Biotechnology has made India a net exporter of BT Cotton from being an importer, with production nearly doubling to 510 kg per hectare from 225 kg over a decade ago, an industry player said Monday.

According to Burkina Faso National Cotton Producers Union (UNPCB), Burkina Fasos cotton output for 2012 (which includes January 2013) has increased by 57.5 percent due to higher number of farmers who adopt genetically modified (GM) cotton.

According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), rice, compared with other major crops such as corn (maize) or wheat has an extraordinarily diverse genetic resource base that spreads across at least ...