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Biotech Food & Agriculture Essentials publishes only the best Biotech news and links, carefully hand-picked and curated by top biotech experts.

Top news of the week: 26.02.2023.

AI for life: Trends in artificial intelligence for biotechnology

AI for life: Trends in artificial intelligence for biotechnology

Due to popular successes (e.g., ChatGPT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on everyone's lips today. When advances in biotechnology are combined with ad…

As climate change threatens European agriculture, debate over GMO crops is reignited

As climate change threatens European agriculture, debate over GMO crops is reignited

As global temperatures continue to rise, some experts are once again pushing the use of new strains of crops currently classified as genetically modified organisms to help the continent ...

Prioritizing Agricultural Research in the 2023 Farm Bill

Prioritizing Agricultural Research in the 2023 Farm Bill

The United States should increase support for agricultural R&D in the next Farm Bill to ensure farmers can keep feeding the world in spite of challenges from climate change and other ...

How Trace Genomics is bringing soil analysis out of the dark with hi-definition genome sequencing

How Trace Genomics is bringing soil analysis out of the dark with hi-definition genome sequencing

As a new report from the outlines, Trace Genomics' hi-definition genome sequencing technology can decode and catalog the complete soil environment.

Rethinking methane: renowned scientist Professor Frank Mitloehner on GWP*, GWP 100 and climate neutrality

Rethinking methane: renowned scientist Professor Frank Mitloehner on GWP*, GWP 100 and climate neutrality

Prof Mitloehner's presentation covers a range of issues relating to methane and carbon dioxide in terms of global warming, climate neutrality, GWP100, GWP*, implications for the livestock ...

What Parents Need to Know About Pesticides and GMOs For Kids

What Parents Need to Know About Pesticides and GMOs For Kids

Confused about buying your family organic foods vs. non-organic foods, or concerned about pesticides and GMOs when it comes to your kids? You’re not alone! As a dietitian mom I’ve sifted ...

Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production

Brief: Future Fields raises $11.2m to scale up fruit flies for recombinant protein production

Canadian startup Future Fields has raised $11.2m to expand its fruit fly biomanufacturing platform for producting recombinant proteins