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Column: It’s time to embrace a new era of gene-edited food
At first, it seemed like a 28 square-meter plot of Arborio rice in Italy was a symbol of changing attitudes toward genetically engineered food. Instead, it’s shown us that the debate is well and truly alive. Scientists used CRISPR-Cas9, a precision gene- …