Crispr is Coming to Agriculture, with Big Implications for Food, Farmers, Consumers, and Nature

By Maywa Montenegro, Ensia

Very few technologies truly merit the epithet “game changer” — but a new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is one of them.

Classical Cotton Breeding

By Rebecca Burgess, Fibershed

Enhancing nature’s time-tested processes or Engineering… the difference between this phrase and word is a clear line in the sand that divides many millennia of human efforts to breed plants and animals, and the contemporary field of genetic modification.