The jury is still out on what long-term effects genetically modified foods will have on the human body. “I don’t think all of it is bad,” said Dr. Jason Knight of Maricopa Medical Center. “I think ...

Many people avoid “GMOs” at the grocery store, instead selecting foods labeled non-GMO or the organic versions of items from apples to oats, as they are worried about ingesting genetically modified ...

The question is, are genetically modified organisms good or bad? The answer is that it all depends on how the technology is used. For example, electrical power can be used in a way as to make our ...

Walk down the aisles of your local supermarket and you'll find floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with food boasting nutritional benefits: whole grains in cereals, omega-3s in eggs, lycopene—that ...

Mar. 23 -- FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- When you bite into an apple, you pretty much know what you're getting. The same can't be said for many packaged foods, which often contain ingredients ...

As home gardeners in the U.S. page through seed catalogs and pick out their favorite heirlooms, there's a new seed that has never been available to them before: a tomato the color of a concord grape ...

photo illustration by rafael bustamante and alexa welch Edlund/times-dispatch There you stand in your local grocery store, two ears of corn before you. One was grown from seeds on a farm using organic ...

Genetically modified foods are a hot-button issue. Many people are hesitant to eat plants or animals that have been enhanced with foreign genes, citing health and environmental concerns, the perceived ...

The United States government does not regulate genetically modified foods and it is time for that to change. There are definite risks associated with GM foods, yet the average American consumer is ...

Genetically modified foods are plants or animals that have had genes copied from other plants or animals inserted into their DNA. It’s not a new idea — humans have been tinkering with genes for ...

Reducing the number of stomata that rice have makes them more tolerant to salt water, according to researchers. Reducing the number of stomata that rice have makes them more tolerant to salt water, ...

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the real problem with GMO food, also known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Specifically, we look at whether GMOs and GMO ...