Top news of the week: 01.09.2020.
Biotechnology, Nutrition, Genetically modified food, Organic food, Irrigation, Yeast
Food And Agriculture
RT @MatinQaim: Driving up organic farming in the EU and promoting sustainable global food security are incompatible goals. Interesting blog by @JonEntine. We need to embrace new sustainable technologies, including #GMOs (in addition to dietary change). https://t.co/sl7tXpcDJE
OpenViewpoint: Farm to Fork failure—How Europe’s ‘obsession’ with organics undermines the global sustainable farming movement
Europe’s quest to confront climate change and achieve carbon neutrality is being undermined by “ Big Ag”? That’s not my claim. It’s the latest in a series
RT @SeedsOfGoldKE: Proponents say biotechnology offers opportunities to develop crop varieties that address challenges facing production.
https://t.co/HbIqjvr3An
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The FDA’s new food agriculture high school curriculum introduces topics such as selective breeding and genetic engineering. https://t.co/kXsNg8grAG @US_FDA
OpenFDA launches high-school curriculum to teach students about GMOs, CRISPR
Food agriculture is a topic of great interest to farmers, consumers, scientists, educators, and many people of all ages. After all, all people and animals
Despite their ability to create matter out of thin air, algae and cyanobacteria have long been neglected by the #biotech industry. Recently, however, they have started to gain traction in new market niches. https://t.co/ip12Ok5ZaF #synbio
OpenAfter Years of Neglect, Algae Biotechnology Makes a Comeback
Despite their ability to create matter out of thin air, algae and cyanobacteria have long been neglected by the biotech industry. Recently, however, they have started to gain traction in ...
RT @bondpetfoods: Big news from the science team at Bond. A giant step on the way to a new, better chicken.
Pictured here- the world's first animal-free chicken protein for pet nutrition (after filtration, before drying).
Read more about this, and what’s to come. https://t.co/uh23qen9nH
OpenBond Pet Foods Develops The World's First Animal-Free Chicken Protein For Dog And Cat Nutrition
/PRNewswire/ -- Bond Pet Foods, Inc., the Boulder-based company working with biotechnology to make animal-free and protein-rich pet food, today announced the...
RNAi research in crops is booming across the globe, and with tremendous potential to improve ag by modifying endogenous gene expression, + pest and pathogen genes both within plants (i.e. host-induced gene silencing) and/or as topical sprays
https://t.co/4YJY2UdsEz https://t.co/qOu4saPnCm
OpenRNAi: What is its position in agriculture?
RNAi is a natural mechanism which can be exploited to make a major contribution towards integrated pest management and sustainable agricultural strategies needed worldwide to …
RT @ScienceAlly: Throughout Africa, women are developing crops that produce high yields and can tolerate or resist disease, as well as healthier, more productive livestock. They are informing the public about how these improved crops can aid the fight against hunger.https://t.co/T5vqU9L9N0
OpenAfrican women are leading biotechnology’s advance across the continent
Women researchers are strongly influencing the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Africa. “As African women, we are the ones who suffer most whenever drought and food shortages ...
Tasty gene edited future? Durham food tech startup Pairwise is close to marketing its leafy greens | WRAL TechWire https://t.co/7n4FSQtDvd
OpenTasty future? Durham food tech startup Pairwise is close to marketing its leafy greens
Durham food tech startup Pairwise is using genome-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered, Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), to leverage good traits of Brassica juncea ...