My mom always “accidentally” makes too much rice so she can turn it into golden fried rice the next day. The rice gets its signature golden hue from lots of eggs. My mom’s secret? She separates the ...

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 ...

There's a kind of rice growing in some test plots in the Philippines that's unlike any rice ever seen before. It's yellow. Its backers call it "golden rice." It's been genetically modified so that it ...

"Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor, it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden rice, ...

It was a proud moment when the Philippines, where I lived for over five years, became the first country to accept biotech Golden Rice. That was in 2021. It’s now a dismal moment that the nation’s ...

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has controversially promoted vitamin A as a treatment for measles, despite evidence showing it can be toxic in high doses and is no substitute ...

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