Lab Members In the Media
EOS Wetenschap (Belgium): Planten meten schemering
Science magazine article about the lab’s discovery that plants can measure the duration of twilight using their circadian clock genes.
Jun 2024NTR: NOS Nieuwsuur (Netherlands): Europa verdeeld over ruimere regels voor genetisch bewerkt voedsel
TV program about the new CRISPR legislative proposal in the EU featuring Devang.
Dec 2023ORF TV2 (Austria): Streit um mehr Gentechnik am Teller
TV program about the new CRISPR legislative proposal in the EU featuring Devang and Aisha.
Sep 2023De Standaard (Belgium): Ggo’s zullen EU niet helpen om pesticidegebruik tegen 2030 te halveren
News article about CRISPR’d plants quoting Devang rebutting flawed arguments against GMOs.
Jul 2023Panellist on Al Jazeera’s live coverage of the 2021 Nobel Prize ceremony
2021
Profile in Laborjournal: “Genetic engineering: a modern witch-hunt” (German)
2020
Interview with The Pulse: “Why Opposition to GMOs in First World Privilege”
2018
Quoted in the Quartz: “A debate over plant consciousness is forcing us to confront the limitations of the human mind”
2018
"Plant biotechnologist Devang Mehta, for one, says the answer to the question of whether plants are conscious “is unreservedly no.”
Talking Biotech Podcast: “Engineering Plant Virus Resistance”
2018
Press releases
Scientists develop tool to sequence circular DNA
2020, University of Alberta
Gene-editing technology may produce resistant virus in cassava plant
2019, University of Alberta
2018, ETH Zurich
Preprints in Motion Podcast: eLife: publishing, community and pushing the boundaries with Michael Eisen & Devang Mehta