A recent study reaches damning conclusions about the failure of the technology – but an agricultural expert says the reality ...

The study, recently published in Science, shows rootworms are increasingly resistant to the built-in protection of corn that is genetically engineered to produce insecticidal proteins derived from a ...

A new study from Michigan State University shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a ...

It's bad news for corn farmers, who paid extra money for ... was copied from an insect-killing bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. In the 1980s, scientists managed to insert a Bt ...

A new study shows that planting too much genetically modified corn designed to fight off a tough insect -- the corn rootworm -- especially in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt states may be causing more harm ...

Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) corn is a critical technology for many farmers to protect fields against insects. Refuge helps preserve the benefits of Bt technology, according to Take Action ...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive ... Since then, numerous crops, from corn to cotton, have been engineered with Bt genes. As of 2010, at least 50% of cotton and 40% of the corn produced in ...

but rats fed the GM corn showed organ failure and the toxin has been detected in the bodies of pregnant women. Origins: The Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) protein referred to in the above graphic ...