Top news of the week: 04.09.2022.
How are crops genetically modified? The key approaches
How are crops genetically modified? Here are the major ways they have been adapted and changed into the GMO varieties we are familiar with today.
Glyphosate causes dangerous convulsions in animals—and maybe humans? Wild headlines again advance ideological agenda over evidence
Scrolling through the news has become a game of “What Great Horror Did Glyphosate Wreak This Week?” And the latest news cycle did not disappoint. A variation on the, “Study first to link ...
Tweaking crops to prevent disease and reduce pesticide use — a CRISPR solution
Applying new CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, researchers at the University of California San Diego have set their aims on a
Genome Editing in South and Southeast Asia: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?
What is the future of genome editing in South and Southeast Asia? Will the biotech adopting countries consider genome-edited products as GMOs or not? What are the hurdles in creating new ...
When does it make sense to make natural ingredients in a fermentation tank vs a field? Kalsec teams up with Infinome Biosciences
Kalsec - a global producer of spice and herb extracts – has just teamed up with Infinome Biosciences to develop multiple ingredients via precision fermentation. FoodNavigator-USA caught up ...
Plant Biotech, the Underrated and Underfunded Environmental Tool
To improve environmental outcomes in agriculture, the 2023 Farm Bill needs to prioritize plant breeding and biotech research.
Ginkgo Bioworks Appoints Dr. Behzad Mahdavi as Senior Vice President of Biopharma Manufacturing & Life Science Tools
BOSTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced that Behzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., MBA, has …
About the Project
"Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has ...