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1 day ago · Potato growers provided with the Innate potato, a GMO resistant to Colorado potato beetles, were more than happy to adopt them until activists threatened the largest potato consumers with “brand risk.” “McDonald’s and Frito-Lay have enormous economic leverage as the biggest customers for frozen fries and chipping potatoes. They ...
4 hours ago · Mexican officials will no longer allow GMO corn (including seeds) to enter their food chain, as they claim it will harm their population’s health and show numerous studies to prove their point ...
5 days ago · John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (/ ˈ h ɔː l d eɪ n /; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
4 days ago · The International Potato Center was founded in Lima, Peru, in 1971 as an R&D organization with a focus on potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other Andean roots and tubers. [2] The geographical region known as Micronesia lies in the western part of the Pacific, about 5,945 kilometers (3,223 miles) from the islands of Hawai’i.
4 days ago · While the clock struck midnight to start the new year of 1944, two clandestine operators crept across the darkened shores of key Normandy beaches, the beaches that would be the targets for D-Day.
5 days ago · GMO foods pose greater risk to agriculture than human health, experts say. Following a review of almost 900 studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported...
3 days ago · Swaminathan contributed basic research related to potato, wheat, and rice, in areas such as cytogenetics, ionizing radiation, and radiosensitivity. He was a president of the Pugwash Conferences and the International Union for Conservation of Nature .
