Society & Culture
GMOs might be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about food and tech. They've been a contentious and emotional issue for decades now, and with new genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR entering the mainstream, keeping up is only getting more complicated. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Matthew R. Willmann, director of the Plant Transformation Facility at Cornell University, as well as Dr. Urvashi Rangan, the chief science advisor for GRACE Communications Foundation, about the potential power, and potential problems, of genetically engineering our food. Read more in the show notes.