Identity of the holders of anonymous bank accounts in Swiss banks may now get exposed. Writes Dean Starkman The Swiss government plans to create a central
Seed companies are promising sweeter strawberries, drought-resistant cabbage and healthier tomatoes in less time and at lower cost thanks to genome editing technology. There’s a catch though: In some cases, rules are so lax that we may never know our food was genome edited. On the northern coast of the Netherlands, around 30 companies are working in fields and greenhouses to develop the next greatest thing in vegetables. The region calls itself Seed Valley. It is the heartland of European vegetable breeding the way Silicon Valley is the center of IT and software innovation. During a Syngenta media field trip last autumn, the rows of vegetables reminded me of a Disneyland park before all the guests arrive – pristine, bright and trimmed to perfection – almost make-believe. All the vegetables here are bred using conventional methods, which Syngenta explains, are very scientific and can take years, sometimes decades, to bear fruit (literally). There is no talk of genome editing or CR
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