The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made its support of genetically modified foods no secret over the years, and the recent $10 million grant awarded by the foundation to a team of British plant scientists makes it even more apparent.

Human serum albumin—a blood protein—has been added to genetically modified brown rice by researchers in a new study conducted at the Yang He and Daichang Yang at Wuhan University in China, and published in the recent issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Eleven thousand U.S. farmers celebrated victory as word came that they will receive a settlement of $750 million due to crop drift from Bayer's genetically modified LibertyLink rice that contaminated their crops in 2006.