Top news of the week: 10.11.2020.
#FoodHeroes #Biotech #agricultural #healthier #science #Geneediting
Food And Agriculture
Golden Rice: The blame lies with overcautious governments, many regulate GMOs as if they were biological weapons. Hoping to avoid unintended consequences of growing GM. crops, regulators unintentionally rob people of their eyesight and often their lives https://t.co/cHw3T02jwB
OpenHow needless precaution kept a GMO ‘superfood’ off the market: Q&A with Golden Rice author Ed Regis
Seeing what has happened to Golden Rice over the course of 20 years, nothing would surprise me going forward.
Podcast: Some vaccine skeptics aren't science deniers; Animal-free ice cream; Plant burgers are 'meat'? https://t.co/bzss37kXPz
OpenPodcast: Some vaccine skeptics aren’t science deniers; Animal-free ice cream; Plant burgers are ‘meat’?
f you reject vaccines, you're a science denier! Not necessarily. Some people may have legitimate reasons to be skeptical. Scientists can make ice cream
.@berkeley_lights recently built hardware to collect blood from a patient who had recovered from Covid-19. It separates out the bad cells from the helpful and lets scientists incubate them to see whether they make antibodies that neutralize the coronavirus https://t.co/8tZyguHtKx
OpenThe Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now
We're on the cusp of being able to program biological systems like we program computers. That raises some thorny questions.
RT @CropLifeIntl: “Having grown up in India during the 1960s and ‘70s, I witnessed first-hand how the green revolution transformed my country and helped achieve greater food security,” says Channa Prakash (@AgBioWorld), the latest in our #Biotech #FoodHeroes series. More: https://t.co/pYgAmYHUBr https://t.co/msFAI7U7wA
OpenChanna Prakash
CropLife International is an association, based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes agricultural technologies such as pesticides and plant biotechnology.
“I have always thought that agriculture is the key to survival. If there's no food, there's no way of living and surviving," says Fernando Hercos Valicente, the latest in our #biotech #foodheroes series. Learn more about him and our other #foodheroes here: https://t.co/5YFTodUtPp https://t.co/TUdy9kI5Fz
OpenFernando Hercos Valicente
CropLife International is an association, based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes agricultural technologies such as pesticides and plant biotechnology.
African biotechnology advance: Vaccine breakthrough could prevent 'catastrophic' tick-borne diseases that cost farmers $19B annually https://t.co/TjINaMJFNk
OpenAfrican biotechnology advance: Vaccine breakthrough could prevent ‘catastrophic’ tick-borne diseases that cost farmers $19B annually
Livestock breeding is expected to be one of the engines of economic growth in Africa as it struggles to recover from the devastating impact of
RT @KHefferon: Creating Crops for the Future: Challenges, Technology and Sustainable Solutions https://t.co/i1NL50ULJt
OpenCreating Crops for the Future: Challenges, Technology and Sustainable Solutions
Special event hosted by Translational Photosynthesis and Register here November 11, 11 am Australia East Coast Daylight Time (AEDT UTC+11 ) which is November 10, 7pm EST, 4pm PST One of the ...
RT @APCoAB: Biotechnology Has Helped Humans Since The Beginning of The Civilization
#Geneediting is the past, present and future of #agricultural #science. It promises a better and #healthier tomorrow. @APAARI @CropLifeIntl
Source: https://t.co/Zcy3o6Hlha https://t.co/sCW7BiC5xz
OpenBiotechnology timeline: Humans have manipulated genes since the ‘dawn of civilization’
The history of biotechnology shows how humans have been manipulating nature for our benefit for a long time—and how modern genetic engineering is rapidly revolutionizing food and medicine.