Will Your Next Burger Begin Life in a Lab?

Center Scholar Walter Johnson, along with Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard and research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, recently wrote for The Washington Post about the Impossible Burger, a plant-based food genetically modified to taste like meat. The piece covers recent regulatory discussions about “cultured meat,” including fights with interest groups over calling such products “meat” at all.  Additionally, recent polling shows American households […]

Marchant on Regulating Gene Editing in Plants and Animals

Faculty Director Gary Marchant spoke at the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco on October 26th. He presented as part of a Symposium On New Genetic Technologies: Ethical Debates And Global Science Policy organized by The Hastings Center. Marchant discussed the regulatory challenges and opportunities with respect to editing the genes of […]