--- title: Five Best: Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs description: Can we rehabilitate the idea of GMOs, the enlightened self-interest of donor nations was supposed to improve foreign aid and more. canonical: https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-13T17:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:07.089Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 13, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 13, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can we rehabilitate the idea of GMOs?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/ginkgo-bioworks-gmos/552374/) By Sarah Zhang in the _Atlantic_ **2\.** [**The enlightened self-interest of donor nations was supposed to improve foreign aid. That hasn’t happened.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/02/07/development-self-interest-and-the-countries-left-behind/) By Sarah Bermeo at the _Brookings Institution_ **3\.** [**What would it mean for America’s immigration police to become an intelligence agency?**](https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump) By Betsy Woodruff in the _Daily Beast_ **4\.** [**This is why the Midwest is becoming America’s new biotech hub.**](http://www.ozy.com/acumen/why-the-midwest-is-becoming-americas-most-surprising-biotech-hub/83474) By Nick Fouriezos in _Ozy_ **5\.** [**Diaspora workers already send money home. Could they send knowledge, too?**](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/turning-brain-drain-to-brain-gain/) By Ronit Avni at the _World Economic Forum_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/"},"headline":"Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs","datePublished":"2018-02-13T17:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:07.089Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Immigration","GMOs","Foreign Aid","Biotech"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5155353/can-we-rehabilitate-the-idea-of-gmos/","name":"Can We Rehabilitate the Idea of GMOs"}}]}] ```