Biotechnology

The Green Revolution of the post-World War II era has rightly been hailed as a huge achievement for humankind. Transformation ...

A team at MIT has genetically modified bacteria cells and developed a new 3D printing technique to create a "living ...

In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because its high-quality ...

The USDA's ruling that crops grown using hydroponics and aquaculture can be labeled organic set off a heated debate over ...

Viewpoint: 12 ways organic activists mislead consumers | David Zaruk How anti-biotech environmental groups are trying to kill roll-out of AquaBounty’s sustainable ...

The stuff with no G to M It would stand to reason that any Non-GMO Project certified item would have ...

[T]he breakthrough that finally created rice seeds strong enough to stand up to blight and flood came when Pamela Ronald ...

[Editor's note: Øystein Heggdal is a Norwegian agronomist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and natural resources. He is ...

If heart transplantation - 50 years after Christiaan Barnard carried out the first operation - has become routine, what exactly ...

Glyphosate, the ubiquitous herbicide, may not really be poison, but it could well be the most politicized substance in Europe. In ...

The topic of neonicotinoid seed treatments (NSTs) continues to keep researchers searching for answers. A study from the University of ...

Genetically modified crops are continuing to spread across the world’s agricultural land. Last year they covered a record 185m hectares, ...

Visit the March Against Monsanto website and you'll see a strange ad peppering the pages, among the usual dubious stories about ...

Agricultural choices don't just affect food availability. They also have significant economic and social ramifications. A case in point is the ...

Kate Devlin says she does, occasionally, get a little weary of being pigeonholed as “that sex robot woman.” … “There’s ...

Over the last few years, new tools have rapidly created possibilities in plant breeding. These New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) ...

A few biohackers (fans of do-it-yourself (DIY) science experiments) recently designed a gene therapy for HIV. Not only that, they posted a video ...

If you have the opportunity to see the documentary “Food Evolution,” do it. It has been the most talked-about food and agriculture ...

Is it true that a ban on GM crops in the European Union has hurt productivity? Most likely yes, retired ...

Is the Wild West of stem cell therapies coming to an end? Newly released guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggest ...

[Editor's note: Executives from several companies developing gene therapies gathered for a panel discussion at the recent Forbes Healthcare Summit, ...

The Salk Institute has enlisted a new ally in the effort to address the anticipated dangers of climate change — plants. Scientists ...

President Emmanuel Macron’s promise to rid France of controversial weedkiller glyphosate within three years has left some farmers in the ...

Despite promotion of GM crops, adoption has been slow across the continent. South Africa began using the technology in the ...

A novel artificial intelligence tool that can accurately call out variants in sequencing data was released as open source on the ...

A judge has granted Dannon’s motion to dismiss a high-profile false advertising lawsuit alleging shoppers were misled by its ‘all-natural’ ...

Does the organic food industry use deceptive marketing practices to scare wealthy customers away from conventional agriculture and GMOs? The ...