I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals revoked a ...

Finally nail the golden ratio for rice, whether you're cooking for one or a crowd. The right water-to-grains, and delicious, ...

Vitamin A deficiency is the No. 1 cause of preventable blindness in children, and it has also contributed to the deaths of millions of children in the developing world. So when a published study finds ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Like the hover boards of the Back to the Future franchise, golden rice is an old idea ...

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It was July 2000, and the cover of Time magazine boldly proclaimed, “This Rice Could Save a Million Kids a Year.” The rice was “golden rice,” a strain genetically engineered to produce beta-carotene ...

The first field trial of the Golden Rice in Bangladesh has yielded promising results, triggering prospect of the vitamin A-rich grain's release as early as 2018. Two months after harvesting the ...

UK scientists have developed a new genetically modified strain of golden rice that is said to produce 23 times more beta-carotene than the previous variety, reports Dominique Patton. The rice would be ...

A year after regulatory approval, the Philippines has started transplanting Golden Rice this wet season, becoming the first country in the world to go for commercial cultivation of ...

Proponents of the genetically modified crop Golden Rice claim that vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines was prevalent. In the Philippines alone, more than 3 million children suffer from vitamin A ...

Rice is a daily dietary staple for roughly half of humanity, including a disproportionate number of the poorest people on Earth. Unfortunately, while rice is rich in carbohydrates, it's a poor source ...