Michelle Perro, MD - GMOScience

Are GMOs contributing to the rise in chronic health conditions in our children?

Through sanitation, better nutrition, medical care and many other advances, we naturally expect that children’s health should continually improve over time. However, this has not been the case in recent years. Many childhood diseases are on the rise and the rate of...

Super Weeds and Herbicide – Tolerant Genetically Engineered Crops

Article, Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, GMO, Guest Articles, Pesticides, Regulations

By Belinda Martineau, PhD Some Ag-Biotech history Twenty years ago, before crops genetically engineered to be herbicide-tolerant were commercially available, one of the big concerns environmentalists had about the use of agricultural biotechnology was that it would...

Regulation of Genetically Engineered Foods

Article, GMO, Nutrition, Parent Advice, Regulations

In the US, genetically engineered (GE) organisms are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Department of Agricultural (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since the first commercialization of GE foods, the US National Academy of...

Genetic Engineering: Far-Reaching Biomedical Uses in Modern Society

Article, GMO, Vaccines

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and of the fact that one could engineer bacteria, plants, and animals using “recombinant” techniques to express genes moved from other organisms, much of biology and genetics research has been transformed. This remarkable...

Top Concerns About Glyphosate Include Birth Defects and Cancer

Article, Childhood Illness, Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, Parent Advice, Pesticides, Reproductive Health

Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the systemic herbicide formulation Roundup®, as well as in several generic “glyphosate-based herbicides” (GBHs). These herbicides are applied around the world to most of the acres where genetically engineered (GE) crops are...