Top news of the week: 11.01.2022.
Food And Agriculture
Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis
The season of retrospectives is upon us. The past year will be long remembered with dismay and sadness, as the four horsemen—
Viewpoint: ‘The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment’ — The cowardly, useless stupidity behind the new genetic modification law
It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary to the public interest. One of
What’s the key, mostly missing, innovation that can help us adapt to severe climate change? Agricultural biotechnology
The major food staples are essential to human survival. Chocolate and coffee are not essential, but try to imagine a world without them. One of the
Heat-Proofing Plants for Food Security May Bank on Ancient Defenses
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Freising, Germany, have discovered an alternative mode of promoting heat resistance in plants. They found the activity of the plant ...
Viewpoint: How Bangladesh can use genetic engineering to improve food security
Bangladesh has declared self-sufficiency in food in 2013 with a population of 150 million and continued to maintain the status up till this date as the
Director of Government Affairs
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, ...
Optimvia and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Manufacture Biosynthetic Heparin
BOSTON and CINCINNATI, Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Optimvia, a biotechnology company specializing in engineering enzymes and their cofactors to synthesize complex therapeutic molecules, ...
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh presides over a high - level joint meeting of all the Science Ministries and Science Departments
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Ch