European Scientists Unite to Safeguard Gene-Editing for Crops

Leading researchers representing more than 85 European plant and life sciences research centres and institutes have endorsed a position paper that urgently calls upon European policy makers to safeguard gene-editing technologies in plant science and agriculture.
The scientists are deeply concerned about a recent European Court of Justice ruling concerning modern genome editing techniques that could lead to a de facto ban of innovative crop breeding.
The position paper argues the European farmers