Daily lifeJust 19% of Europeans view innovative foods such as cultivated meat or gene-edited crops positively, though better-informed and younger consumers are far more open, a European Commission survey shows.
AgrotechResurrect Bio's chief executive says easing gene-editing rules in the UK, EU and the Americas are drawing investors back to disease-resistant crop genetics.
AgrotechExecutives of Hudson River Biotechnology and Biographica, which have joined computational gene-target discovery with CRISPR editing and plant regeneration, say breeders now ask what to edit, and disease resistance tops the list.
FruitsHeavy rain at the end of 2024 helped cut Costa Rica's banana exports from 125.7 million boxes to 110.4 million in 2025; its banana corporation Corbana is breeding resistant hybrids and using drones and soil microbes against disease.
AgribusinessThe former UK environment secretary said crop failures and farmers' need to invest will push prices up, and warned that an EU food deal could limit Britain's gene-editing freedom.
AgrotechCibus is using gene editing in a Defra-backed project with the John Innes Centre to build light leaf spot resistance into UK oilseed rape, as breeders put resilience beside yield.
AgrotechKansas State University researchers found that the viral proteins HcPro and P19 block CRISPR-Cas13, a sign that engineered virus resistance may need more than one mechanism.
AgrotechPresenting a report on Europe's lagging crop output, Bayer argued that new genomic techniques could ease opposition to GM crops and called for a "fast lane" for new crop protection products.
AgrotechSpanish seed company Semillas Fitó and Dutch genome-editing firm Hudson River Biotechnology have agreed a long-term partnership to create new genetic variation in tomatoes, starting with disease and pest resistance.
AgrotechClimateCrop, built on a Weizmann Institute discovery, uses gene editing to disable a protein that brakes starch production in leaves, which it says lifts daily starch storage by 10 to 15 percent and helps crops grow and recover from stress.
LivestockLMU Munich researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the interferon tau genes from bovine embryos, which still established pregnancies; two healthy calves were born in February 2026, overturning the view that the signal is essential.
AgrotechDefra has confirmed eight J.R. Simplot strawberry lines, edited with CRISPR to switch off a gene that limits flowering, as precision bred organisms under England's new rules, moving them closer to field trials.
FruitsAPHIS is taking comments until 13 October on a USDA Agricultural Research Service petition to deregulate two gene-edited European plum lines that flower early and repeatedly, a trait meant to cut years off fruit-tree breeding.
