A recent meeting about the disconnect between scientific and public beliefs points to ways researchers can improve how they communicate with skeptics.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.

Unlike judges in the European Union, a government panel in Japan says transgenic modification and genome editing are not the same.

The European Court of Justice has decided that organisms made with precision techniques such as CRISPR will be subject to the same rules as transgenic plants or animals.

An analysis of 40 years of data also finds declines in pest populations after the introduction of the GM crop.

RT and Sputnik publish stories about GMOs more often than US outlets, and typically portray them in a negative light.

Crops produced using mutagenic technologies such as CRISPR should generally be exempt from regulatory laws governing GMOs, according to the published opinion.

Plantings of non-GM refuges counter the development of resistance.

The EPA is now in charge of regulating the use of Oxitec’s strain of Aedes aegypti, genetically engineered to reduce populations of the insects.