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In April, the US Supreme Court will hear Monsanto's case for why it should be cleared to resume reselling Roundup Ready alfalfa seeds.

The company also announced a tool to facilitate third-party software control for Agilent LCs: OpenLAB Unified Software Suite.

The collaboration will develop new scientific methods for food testing to solve problems facing global food supply chains.

Roughly 5,500 farmers in 48 states have planted more than a quarter million acres of Roundup Ready alfalfa, which has been modified to resist an herbicide called glyphosate. But a federal district judge in San Francisco determined that new seeds can’t be sold until USDA completed an environmental impact assessment as required by NEPA.

Overall, the findings and interpretations in Schmidt et al. and the consideration of this paper for the justification of the ban of MON810 in Germany appear erroneous.

Success depends on the acceptance and use of contemporary molecular techniques, as well as the increasing development of farming systems that use saline water and integrate nutrient flows.

A vital study cited by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to justify his decision to disallow the commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in India is flawed, claim top European scientists.

The new facility houses Thermo Fisher’s Anatomical Pathology and Chromatography Consumables businesses.

The GMO Panel concludes that the authors’ claims, regarding new side effects indicating kidney and liver toxicity, are not supported by the data provided in their paper.

Plans to give national governments the right to decide whether to grow new genetically modified crops could unblock a paralysis in EU approvals, but risk igniting internal-market disputes within the bloc.