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The European Commission has officially proposed to loosen rules on certain new genetic techniques (NGTs), paving the way for gene-edited crops to be found on EU citizens’ plates in the near future.  The Commission’s long-awaited proposal on new genetic techniques (NGTs) was presented on Wednesday (5 July) as part of ​​its ‘Sustainable …

Gene editing can have a major impact on global agriculture through rapid development of crop varieties with diverse desirable traits… In what has been a first, this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to two women scientists and an all-women team, France’s Emmanuelle Charpentier and the US’s Jennifer …