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Food And Agriculture

On Aug 2, 2020
@prometheusgreen shared
Viewpoint: Crop biotech innovation isn't enough to shut down the anti-GMO propaganda machine https://t.co/7e7YH6jMQS
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Viewpoint: Crop biotech innovation isn’t enough to shut down the anti-GMO propaganda machine

Viewpoint: Crop biotech innovation isn’t enough to shut down the anti-GMO propaganda machine

Scientists need to promote and defend the relevance of their science, even after it has left their lab.

On Jul 30, 2020
@AgBioWorld shared
RT @TedNordhaus: H/T and good take from @mark_lynas https://t.co/nX3kS4qhbZ
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Scientific meta-analysis: Agro-ecology risks harming the poor and worsening gender inequality in Africa

Scientific meta-analysis: Agro-ecology risks harming the poor and worsening gender inequality in Africa

Rather than helping to address food insecurity, the agro-ecological agenda may in fact be trapping African farmers in poverty. That’s the finding of the first continent-wide meta-analysis ...

On Aug 3, 2020
@SynBioBeta shared
Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply. Crops sense and respond to drought, pests and other stressors in surprising ways, researchers are discovering https://t.co/PfopZoxs3P
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Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply

Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply

Crops sense and respond to drought, pests and other stressors in surprising ways, researchers are discovering

On Aug 2, 2020
@prometheusgreen shared
RT @RonaldBailey: "Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism." Review of new book Apocalypse Never. https://t.co/dBkwywjbQY via @reason
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The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled

The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled

"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."

On Aug 3, 2020
@gmopundit shared
RT @CibusGlobal: What does #GMO mean, anyway? We break down the many definitions in our latest @Medium post: https://t.co/noKuBZUebe https://t.co/pXoZWBFQgQ
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What does GMO mean, anyways?

What does GMO mean, anyways?

A short guide to answering a complicated question.

On Aug 1, 2020
@AgBioWorld shared
An article design to throw mud over the superb effort to restore the grandeur of the great American Chestnut through GMO https://t.co/r15VgE7TgE
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Infighting Over Genetic Engineering Splinters Efforts to Save the American Chestnut

Infighting Over Genetic Engineering Splinters Efforts to Save the American Chestnut

Is a genetically engineered tree the only way to save the American chestnut? Or is this method, as its detractors allege, a Trojan horse to get genetically modified trees through the ...

On Aug 3, 2020
@GeneticLiteracy shared
Agro-ecological approaches do not substantially improve productivity and therefore do not increase food security for African smallholder farmers. https://t.co/iyhb2HfmMf @ScienceAlly
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Viewpoint: Agro-ecology agendas are trapping African farmers in poverty

Viewpoint: Agro-ecology agendas are trapping African farmers in poverty

ather than helping to address food insecurity, the agro-ecological agenda may in fact be trapping African farmers in poverty. That’s the finding of the

On Jul 30, 2020
@NewHarvestOrg shared
RT @Protein_Report: #JobAlert! New York-based Vivax Bio, the parent company of Moscow-based @3D_Bio, is looking for a scientist to head their new lab which will focus on adapting their platform technologies to applications in #cellbased #meat and #fish. https://t.co/rg8h36g5P5
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Head of Biotech Laboratory

Head of Biotech Laboratory

VIVAX BIO, LLC, based in New York, NY, and its Moscow, Russia, R&D subsidiary, 3D Bioprinting Solutions, focus on 3D bioprinting and work on the whole range of the hardware, materials, ...