In First Fruit, Martineau, as a staff scientist working for the biotechnology startup Calgene (Davis, CA), provides an inside view of the development of the Flavr Savr tomato, the first ...

Genetically modifying food is not a new concept by any means. The "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first commercially available genetically modified food, went on sale in 1994. Luckily there have been ...