Top news of the week: 05.04.2022.
Food And Agriculture
Viewpoint: GMO cowpea can support biodiversity
Nigeria’s biodiversity is rich and unique, including semi-arid savanna, mountain forests, seasonal floodplains, rainforests, vast freshwater swamp forests
Anti-GMO themes losing traction worldwide, suggests new scientific paper
The conversation around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is becoming more positive, according to new Alliance for Science research analyzing traditional and social media trends on ...
How the once-distinguished The Lancet has become a hothouse for anti-science advocacy
Misinformation is rampant on social media. The science community has spent most of the last two years trying to slow the proliferation of spurious claims about COVID-19 vaccines and other ...
Biotechnology key driver of sustainable agriculture innovation in Canada
Anyone who has driven through or flown over, the Canadian prairies during the summer in the past decades, will likely have noticed the impact of innovation in plant breeding as bright ...
Why Africa needs access to both traditional agricultural tools and cutting-edge biotechnology innovations
As an agricultural and environmental scientist, I’ve worked for decades exploring the practical challenges that smallholder farmers encounter in East Africa. These include controlling weeds ...
Microba Life Sciences and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Discover Novel Live Biotherapeutics
Partnership will leverage Ginkgo's high throughput screening capabilities to identify potential therapeutic candidates for autoimmune diseases in Microba's extensive strain bank …
The evolving landscape around genome editing in agriculture
The EU and New Zealand are the only legislations where genome‐edited plants are considered and regulated as GMOs while many other countries move to exempt genome‐edited crops.
GM Crops & Food
Research, reviews and comments on transgenesis; genetically modified food and biofortification; socioeconomic issues; agricultural food chains; biotechnology.