WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators' latest move to sanction a strain of biotech rice may do little to soothe lingering doubts about the oversight of genetically modified foods destined for export ...

There's a kind of rice growing in some test plots in the Philippines that's unlike any rice ever seen before. It's yellow. Its backers call it "golden rice." It's been genetically modified so that it ...

In response to consumers’ desire to make more informed choices about eating foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Riviana Foods Inc.'s rice brands—a wholly owned subsidiary of Ebro ...

Forget the potatoes-and-poo recipe suggested by Andy Weir’s 2011 book The Martian—new research suggests that it’s genetically modified rice that could one day feed the first Mars colonists. Mars is at ...

Reducing the number of stomata that rice have makes them more tolerant to salt water, according to researchers at the University of Sheffield As sea levels rise, seawater is reaching places it ...

WASHINGTON -- Five months after Ventria Bioscience was forced to scuttle plans to grow genetically modified rice in Missouri's Bootheel region, the company is focusing its sights on the northwest part ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Consumers in China's big cities do not welcome genetically modified (GMO) food on their table, according to a Greenpeace survey, although it also showed not many were familiar with ...

Researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy have come under fire for a study involving feeding genetically modified food to children. In February, a group of 32 scientists from ...

"Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor, it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice, ...

Genetically engineering rice to have better salt tolerance could allow it to be grown in places it would otherwise fail, new research from the University of Sheffield has found. As sea levels rise as ...