Anna Meldolesi is science correspondent of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. She was co-founder of the science review Darwin and a contributor to Nature Biotechnology. She was awarded the 2000 Maria Golinelli European Award for Journalism in Genetics. She holds a degree in Biology from the University of Bologna and a Masters degree in Science Communication from the SISSA in Trieste.
She is the author of La costola di Eva(1999), Organismi geneticamente modificati(2001), Mai nate(2011) and Elogio della nudità(Bompiani, 2015).
Genetically modified crops, also called transgenic plants or GMO, have been in existence for over thirty years and have been used in agriculture for more than twenty years. They now represent more t...