Top news of the week: 21.08.2022.
Ronnie Coffman: Legendary plant breeder returning to his roots
Can a person achieve as much in retirement as in a 50-year career? Ronnie Coffman, the world-renowned plant breeder who today officially became professor emeritus at Cornell University’s ...
Glyphosate traces in breast milk? Weedkiller causes neurological disorders? How activists leverage social media to distort science and spread bogus health concerns
Shocking accounts of health dangers selectively presented from peer-reviewed science articles regularly invade Twitter. It’s the stock-in-trade of technology rejectionists who purvey fear, ...
Facing low corn and soybean yields, Vietnam looks to genetic engineering to increase food security
Vietnam is dependent on imported feed materials because our corn and soybean yield is low, production costs are high, and profits are less attractive compared to other sources. other plants.
Europe’s climate change-induced droughts endanger food security, spur calls to embrace biotechnology and other sustainable measures
Drought is a silent phenomenon, which arrives without warning and which, normally, we realize when it has been with us for weeks or months. The scientific community has preferably dealt ...
Constructive bio launches with $15m seed investment to re-engineer biology, creating new classes of enzymes, pharmaceuticals and biomaterials
Cambridge, UK – Constructive Bio announces its launch as a new UK-based biotechnology company following the completion of a $15 million seed round and an exclusive license to IP developed ...
Vietnamese Government Push for Agbiotechnology to Help Mitigate Climate Change Effects
ISAAA Inc., in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Hanoi (USDA FAS Hanoi) and Vietnam's Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), held the ...
The politics of wheat: As agriculture becomes a weapon of war, biotechnology emerges as a strategic tool for the West
Is the world facing “a potential mass starvation event” due to the war in Ukraine? It is starting to look that way. Vladimir Putin is weaponizing food and America is losing wheat as a tool ...
Disease-resistant GM cassava promises to be game-changer for Kenya
At the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) center in Mtwapa, Kenya, scientist Paul Kuria uproots two sets of cassava tubers exposed to the devastating cassava ...