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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 07/10/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT: The pesticide industry didn't just lobby on the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. More like they co-wrote it. This report shows how. Check it out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f... Thread 🧵👇
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Food & Feed Omnibus, co-written by the pesticide lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory
The pesticide lobby’s dirty fingers are all over the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. Omnibus X is paving the way for the dismantling of EU pesticide regulations by allowing harmful pesticides to remain in u...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wageningen University “should not speak on behalf of everyone on the issue of gene editing.” 42 Wageningen researchers object to the use of the university’s name in submission supporting the deregulation of new GMOs. www.gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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Wageningen University “should not speak on behalf of everyone on the issue of gene editing”
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
EU Commission's plan to fast-track releases of #GMO micro-organisms threatens human health and microbiome gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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EU Commission's plan to fast-track releases of GM micro-organisms threatens human health and microbiome
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Glyphosate Science: Cancer, neurotoxicity & endocrine disruption. This Oct. 6 webinar features Dr. Daniele Mandrioli on recent findings from the Global Glyphosate Study, and Dr. Lianne Sheppard on the findings presented at the Seattle Glyphosate Symposium healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
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Glyphosate Science: Cancer, neurotoxicity & endocrine disruption
Glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides are widely used in conventional agricultural systems around the world and in home and garden products in the US and other countries. Human exposure to...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Bayer produced chemical weapons in World War I, supplied the Nazis' arsenals in World War II, and continued its murderous business practices even after that. It's high time the corporation finally broke with this disastrous tradition." — Coalition against Bayer Dangers @cbg-network.bsky.social
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Both #glyphosate and white phosphorous have been used by Israel as chemical weapons in its current conflicts, leading to accusations of war crimes. And Bayer is understood to be the sole US producer of the elemental phosphorus used in the production of the white phosphorus munitions involved.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump awards lucrative multi-billion dollar arms contract to Bayer. The corporation has secured a major US defence contract to supply elemental phosphorus to the Pentagon—specifically to the US military's Pine Bluff Arsenal—for white phosphorous weapons production. www.cbgnetwork.org/lukrativer-r...
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Lukrativer Rüstungsauftrag für BAYER - Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG)
US-Armee bestellt weißen Phosphor Der BAYER-Konzern hat in den USA einen großen Rüstungsauftrag erhalten. Das US-amerikanische Militär bestellte beim Leverkusener Multi für seine Waffenschmiede in Pin...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump-ally De la Espriella is trying to bring aerial spraying back in Colombia. To try and dodge criticism, they're substituting glufosinate for #glyphosate. But glufosinate is linked to serious concerns regarding reproductive and developmental toxicity, and hence it is banned in the EU.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The court ruling has brought renewed attention to Colombia’s long-running debate over aerial eradication. Aerial spraying with #glyphosate was suspended by a court in 2015 and definitively 🧑‍⚖️barred in 2017. But the Trump administration has been pressing Colombia to resume spraying 🛩️☠️☠️
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Colombian judge halts government aerial spraying plan in Putumayo—province in the Andean-Amazonian foothills—citing concerns over its effects on farming communities and the environment. The pilot project was to spray glufosinate, a herbicide banned in Europe. www.telesurenglish.net/colombiajudg...
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Colombian Judge Halts Government Aerial Spraying Plan In Putumayo
A Colombian judge has ordered the immediate suspension of a government pilot program for aerial spraying of illicit crops in Putumayo, citing concerns over its effects on farming communities and the environment.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The victims no longer want to die in silence": cancer patients and farmers are trying to mobilize public opinion to phase out pesticides. Thousands protest near Syngenta factory to demand the phasing out of #pesticides. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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« Les victimes ne veulent plus mourir en silence » : des malades du cancer et des agriculteurs tentent de mobiliser l’opinion pour la sortie des pesticides
Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté, samedi 3 octobre dans l’Eure, près d’une usine de Syngenta, leader mondial du secteur, pour demander la sortie des pesticides et tenter d’installer cet e...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Releasing defective #GMO chestnuts risks contaminating wild chestnuts with irreversible traits. “We’re in uncharted territory…it could affect the fitness of the [wild] trees or how they interact with the ecosystem. You don’t know until you do these studies”—Michael Hansen. No such studies were done.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s USDA Gambles America’s Forests on a Defective #GMO Chestnut Tree. The decision is legally indefensible, ecologically irresponsible, and almost certain to be challenged in federal court—where, on the merits, it should be overturned. www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's USDA Gambles America's Forests on a Defective GMO Chestnut Tree
On August 20, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the unprecedented decision to deregulate a transgenic American chestnut, Darling 54 (D54),
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Beyond Pesticides @beyondpesticides.org · 03/10/2026
Take Action—Where do YOUR candidates stand?📣 #Share our #nonpartisan #candidate #questionnaire with #candidates for your state's U.S. Senate seat and your U.S. House of Reps district to communicate their positions on key #health and #environmental issues! #LearnMore #TakeAction ➡️🔗 ow.ly/VRYG50ZUa51
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Take Action—Where Do Your Candidates Stand?
>> Send a nonpartisan candidate questionnaire to candidates for your state's U.S. Senate seat and your U.S. House of Representatives district, asking them to communicate their positions on key health ...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canadian, European and U.S. regulators seem to exhibit the same preference for company data and dismissive attitude to peer-reviewed papers. For instance, a report on #glyphosate from Health Canada, prepared with the EPA, acknowledged that Health Canada relies mainly on “seller-sponsored science.”
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Monsanto’s lawyers argued that the EPA “exhaustively studied” glyphosate but the EPA appears to have primarily made its decisions based on confidential data and studies provided by the companies, and largely ignored studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What the U.S. Supreme Court’s pesticide ruling means for gardeners and farm workers. The U.S. Supreme Court was encumbered by blinders, idiosyncrasies of constitutional and congressional law, and injudicious reasoning, says Canadian legal expert. theconversation.com/what-the-u-s...
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What the U.S. Supreme Court’s pesticide ruling means for gardeners and farm workers
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on glyphosate relieves the sellers of hundreds of pesticides from obligations to warn customers about potential dangers.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Farmers unite worldwide against what they call ‘chemical colonisation’. Farmers and activists around the world are mobilising on Saturday for an international day of action against pesticides, which they say are damaging their health and destroying their livelihoods. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
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Farmers unite worldwide against what they call ‘chemical colonisation’
Farmers and activists around the world are mobilising on Saturday for an international day of action against pesticides – denouncing products sold by major agrochemical companies that they say are dam...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📅 3 Oct 2026📍France ✊🏽 International mobilisation 🌍 ⚠️ STOP PESTICIDES ⚠️ STOP SYNGENTA ⚠️ ➡️ En-Fr-De-Es: stop-syngenta3oct.com 📌 Stop Syngenta—the world’s top seller of pesticides and 3rd-biggest seed company, with a patent portfolio of 10,000+❗️❌ viacampesina.org/en/2026/08/p...
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STOP SYNGENTA - INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION ON OCTOBER 3, 2026
International mobilization on October 3, 2026 against Syngenta and the pesticide industry, in defense of peasant agriculture and public health.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scientists could soon create “mirror life” that evades nature’s defenses. Such research poses risks for humanity and the planet. Biologists in Singapore have called for new safeguards. www.economist.com/science-and-...
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It may soon be possible to create “mirror life”
Such research poses risks for humanity and the planet
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
⚠️SECURITY UPDATE: Our X account (@GMWatch) was compromised by hackers, but WE'VE NOW SECURED IT — and deleted a post that was part of an active crypto investment scam. If you received a fraudulent DM via X that appeared to come from @GMWatch in the week up to 1 October 2026, DO NOT click any links.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The European Commission says it is acting as a matter of urgency to deregulate GMO micro-organisms. They want to deregulate #GMO bacteria, yeasts, and viruses—to get them on the market faster—by cutting risk assessments and the info provided to the public. infogm.org/en/the-commi...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not really. The claim gene editing differs from gene modifying because it doesn't introduce foreign genes is untrue: gene editing can introduce foreign DNA & foreign genes, both intentionally & inadvertently. Even in UK law, gene editing is acknowledged to be a form of GM: mailchi.mp/gmwatch.org/...
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue @boelleu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🟢 The 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 is out! 🚀 eu.boell.org/en/Agribusin... Key insights 🧵👇 @ipes-food.org @foeeurope.bsky.social @boell.de
A handful of corporations dominate our food system, setting prices, profiting from crises, and driving relentless pressure on the environment, farmers, and consumers alike. The Agribusiness Atlas 2026 traces how this concentration of power took hold, and charts the political pathways toward a fairer food system built around the common good.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Organizations in Oaxaca warn of ecological disaster due to the RNA biofungicide the Mexican govt is promoting. They say the use of different forms of genetic engineering of crops, insects and other organisms represent new environmental dangers oaxaca.eluniversal.com.mx/estatal/orga...
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Organizaciones de Oaxaca advierten desastre ecológico por la fabricación del biofungicida de ARN, anunciado por Ebrard
Explicaron que el gobierno de México, a través de la Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación y la Secretaría de Economía, están promoviendo el uso de diferentes formas de manipulac...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer. Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re not paranoid. They really are out to get us! Support needed and security warning after latest attack gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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We’re not paranoid. They really are out to get us!
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GMWatch fully supports this. Terminate all contracts with Palantir Technologies and permanently ban the company from future public contracts.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The @GMWatch Twitter/X account has been compromised. A recent post claiming we've opened a new building or generated profits with '@CorrinaSinclair' is completely fake & part of a crypto scam. DO NOT click any links, send funds, or engage with the account till we confirm recovery.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If we seem to have been quiet of late, that’s because after we published our last Review, our website suffered a sophisticated cyberattack that drove it off-line—and that we’re still recovering from. So please support the news they don’t want you to read!! gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Check out our latest Review: Glypho-gate, Law & War—Part 1, where we do a deep dive into Bayer’s desperate quest to be shielded from ongoing litigation over the harms caused by Roundup—including its “filthy” “mind-boggling” deal that’s about to be approved www.gmwatch.org/en/news/news...
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As Slovakia files legal challenge to GMO deregulation in Europe, GM Freeze’s Leonie Nimmo talked with Samuel Matejíčka from quid est VERITAS to find out more about the campaign: www.gmfreeze.org/2026/09/23/s... #NGTs #GMOs #No2GMOs
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think a bigger concern with the “dire wolves“ is that Canids are not reproductively isolated — if released these GMO “dire wolves” would interbreed with wild gray wolves, and turn them into dire wolves? And when they mate with red wolves are they now dire ones? www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin...
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Is Synthetic Biology Worth the Risk?
Some say using synthetic biology to change the DNA of plants and animals could help species survive threats. Others say the technology is far too dicey.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While AI doomers' fears of unleashing rogue superintelligence may be wildly overstated, the use of AI in biotech and its possible use in designing biological weapons is among a range of risks we should be concerned about, says Pete Shanks www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical...
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Is AI the End of the World as We Know It?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major focus of news recently, as it s
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Lattesdotter @lattesdotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As cited in the peer reviewed journal, Toxicol Rep. 2026 Apr 23;16:102255. doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2026.102255
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Green Revolution Has Failed Africa — a Farm Gate podcast with Dr Million Belay, AFSA’s coordinator, who is based in Ethiopia, and Michael Farrelly, a consultant to AFSA who lives in Senegal 8point9.com/the-green-re...
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The Green Revolution failed Africa, so why is it being scaled up? - 8point9
The Green Revolution failed Africa, so why is it being scaled up?
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚠️UPDATE: Our X account is now under the control of unauthorized users who have logged us out and removed the security alert (see below) that we had pinned to the account after it was compromised. Nothing new has so far been posted but X users should beware of DMs with potentially malicious links.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bill Freese—science director at the Center for Food Safety—said EPA excluded 78% of thousands of studies as "not relevant" and its goal is to exclude all peer-reviewed studies so it can rely just on Monsanto and its contract labs—where there has been widespread falsification of data, outright fraud
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EPA and HHS teaming up on expanded review of glyphosate safety in bid to win back MAHA supporters alienated by the Trump administration's support for Bayer and protection of #glyphosate. But there's considerable scepticism about whether EPA is acting in good faith www.thenewlede.org/2026/09/epa-...
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EPA and HHS teaming up on expanded review of glyphosate weedkiller safety
US officials said this week they are expanding a scientific review of the widely used weed killer glyphosate, a chemical popular in agriculture but also linked for years to cancer and other health pro...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Glyphosate Found Trapped in Womb Tissue — And It’s Highest in the Most Aggressive Cancers. A new study has detected #glyphosate inside human endometrial tissue — and finds it clustering ominously with a hormone-disrupting mycotoxin in high-grade cancer patients. sustainablepulse.com/2026/09/17/g...
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Glyphosate Found Trapped in Womb Tissue — And It's Highest in the Most Aggressive Cancers
A new Hungarian study is the first to detect glyphosate directly inside human endometrial tissue — and finds it clustering ominously with a
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The USDA Just Cleared a Defective #GMO Tree for Release into the Wild. Very informative podcast with Anne Petermann (@annegjep.bsky.social) of Global Justice Ecology Project (@gjep123.bsky.social) and the Campaign to Stop GE Trees about this disastrous decision. www.buzzsprout.com/1785184/epis...
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The USDA Just Cleared a Defective GMO Tree for Release into the Wild with Anne Petermann - Breaking Green
A genetically engineered (GE) chestnut modified with a wheat gene is being framed as a conservation breakthrough, but the reality is far messier and far more permanent. After the USDA deregulated the ...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
34 civil society organisations from 12 countries call on the European Parliament to reject the proposal to significantly lower safety standards for the environmental release of genetically engineered bacteria, yeasts, algae and viruses www.testbiotech.org/en/news/do-n...
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Do not lower safety standards for releases of genetically engineered microbes into the environment! – Testbiotech
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI-assisted design of novel CRISPR/Cas gene editing tools: Hype vs reality gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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AI-assisted design of novel CRISPR/Cas gene editing tools: Hype vs reality
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Study Links Glyphosate to Higher Risk of Preterm Birth. Every threefold increase in #glyphosate residue level meant about 35% higher odds of preterm birth overall; when you home in on spontaneous preterm birth, the odds roughly doubled. beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblo...
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Study Links Common Weed Killer to Higher Risk of Preterm Birth, Adding to Other Pregnancy Complications - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
Researchers find higher mid-pregnancy glyphosate exposure was linked to a greater chance of preterm birth.
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Slovakian govt and German plant breeders sue the EU over new #GMO rules. Both lawsuits are directed against lax new European rules for a new generation of GMOs. gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Broad alliance representing GMO-free agriculture files lawsuit against EU genetic engineering deregulation. gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
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Lawsuit filed with European Court of Justice against new genetic engineering regulation
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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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