Top news of the week: 11.03.2021.
Food And Agriculture
8 advocacy organizations and websites spreading misinformation about technology, chemicals, agriculture, food and environmental risks
Greenpeace was originally founded in Canada as part of the nuclear war protest movement, but moved to the Netherlands in 1998 after their
Agriculture and climate change: Taking the best of all farming systems could tip the carbon scale in the right direction
Agriculture contributes a significant portion of the world's climate-changing greenhouse gases. In turn, changes in climate will reduce
Podcast: COVID vaccine—Bible’s ‘mark of the beast’? Gene guns and GMOs; Growing plants in space
ome fundamentalist Christians allege that COVID vaccines are "the mark of the beast" described in the Biblical book of Revelation. Is this a conspiracy
The Science of Feeding the World
Scientists have made bold advances in biology and genetics that offer unprecedented power to tailor food crops to the environment, and to the needs of consumers.
African researchers use gene editing and other tools to breed heartier livestock
Livestock researchers in Africa are looking to genome editing and other new technologies to identify genes that could help them tame the spread of a
Future trends in synthetic biology in Asia
With more than two decades of development in research and technology translation, synthetic biology is progressively realizing some of the promises in a variety of highly …
Statement on GMO and ethics in a new era
Hvad kan de nye planteforædlingsteknikker bruges til og hvordan skal de reguleres? This allows wild or semi-cultivated crops which already possess the desirable positive traits to …
We could face a global food crisis by 2050. Is synthetic biology the solution?
Synthetic biology has the potential to reshape our agriculture systems and to usher in a new era equitable and of sustainable nutrition. It’s a lofty but