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Video: Anti-biotechnology activism is blocking our only way to save the Cavendish, the world’s most popular banana
Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of bananas exported to developed countries are just one group called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is ...
Video: Curious about the full implications of the CRISPR gene editing revolution? Here’s a primer
With CRISPR, a group of enzymes recognize certain repeats, and break the DNA there to insert important information in the ...
Video: Good intentions aren’t enough — Attempts to protect wild bees has gone awry and an influx of imported honeybees are doing more harm than good to native populations
Ron Miksha, a bee ecologist and former commercial beekeeper, is doing research at the University of Calgary about competition between ...
Video: Why are there so many COVID variants showing up now and what does it portend for the future?
On November 5, 2020, the United Kingdom went into lockdown in an attempt to control a spike in COVID-19 cases ...
Video: Here’s how synthetic flies could become a major tool in the quest to control insect-borne diseases
CRISPR-based technologies offer enormous potential to benefit human health and safety, from disease eradication to fortified food supplies. As one ...
Video: GLP’s Jon Entine at Aspen Institute conference — Why organic advocates should stop demonizing biotechnology and embrace a sustainability-focused ‘all tools in the agriculture toolbox’ philosophy
Advancing gene editing could be one tool to reduce chemical use in agriculture, but it faces the critical judgment of ...
Video: To feed nearly 8 billion people, we need to grow more food on less land. Vertical farming could increase yields by up to 700%
Vertical farming is a form of agriculture that grows plants indoors in floor-to-ceiling, tower-like walls of plant-holding cells. Instead of ...
Video: Tired of tasteless tomatoes? A juicier, faster-growing genetically-engineered breed is on the horizon
Scientists at the University of Oxford’s Department of Plant Sciences have discovered how the overall process of fruit ripening in ...
Video: Dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 at large public events
University of Pennsylvania researchers are training dogs to sniff out coronavirus, a skill that could be useful in controlling spread ...
Video: Discovery of Homo naledi suggests ‘maybe brain size isn’t all it’s cracked up to be’ when it comes to human evolution
The small brains of Homo naledi raise new questions about the evolution of human brain size. Big brains were costly ...
Video: Many people are asymptomatic to COVID. Why?
For many people infected, COVID has been a devastating virus. However, there are people who test positive, yet don't exhibit ...
Video: Viewpoint — The upside is immense but ‘threats from CRISPR gene editing are too big to ignore’
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary technology that gives scientists the ability to alter DNA. On ...
Video: Synthetic life? Scientists have created xenobots that move, remember, heal and work together in groups
Biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont have created novel, tiny self-healing living machines from ...
Video: 31 states now considering legislation limiting trans athlete rights — Transgender pro cyclist and professor weighs in on sports inclusion
Why have 31 states introduced bills barring trans girls and women from playing girls' and women's school sports, despite having ...
Video: 7 years of agricultural productivity has been lost to climate change. Global warming is already slowing us down
The future potential impacts of climate change on global crop production has been quantified in many scientific reports, but the ...
Video: Vaccines are rescuing the world from COVID. Could they also protect food crops from deadly plant diseases and pandemics?
Preventing plant-disease outbreaks is an urgent matter — as urgent as having a rapid response strategy for human viruses. The ...
Video: What the lungs of newborns look like when they take their first breaths
[U]sing a delicate sensor-belt wrapped around the chests of full-term newborns moments after their delivery, a team of researchers from ...
Video: ‘Cognitive enhancers’ — Can you boost your brain power naturally?
How do so-called 'smart drugs' work, and what are their risks? Watch the video here ...
Video: Lab-grown meat is a global sensation. But can it really help battle climate change?
Last year, Singapore became the first country to allow the sale of lab-grown meat. BBC Minute takes a look at ...
Video: Are there benefits to exercising in cold weather?
Research suggests exposure to the cold can help activate brown fat cells which burn more calories. Does this translate to ...
Video: Between Us, About Us — Black healthcare workers challenge misinformation and spread encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines
The Conversation: Between Us, About Us is a new campaign to provide Black communities with credible information about the COVID-19 ...
Video: Psychological impact of ‘junk food’ — Could fast food make you so impatient you forget to ‘stop and smell the roses’?
Fast food was invented to help us keep up with our fast-paced world. But it’s also had some unintended psychological ...
Video: Humans have lost many genes over the course of our evolution. Here’s how they helped define us
Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and we’ve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is ...
Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast
As highly transmissible coronavirus variants sweep across the world, scientists are racing to understand why these new versions of the ...
Video: ‘One more tool in our toolbox’: The case for crop biotechnology
Agriculture scientist Channapatna Prakash offers a crash course on agricultural biotechnology on this episode of the Nothing is Rocket Science ...
Video: The saga of how humans developed the ability to talk
The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s ...
Video: Developing embryos show an immune response
Incredible new research has shown that long before the development of organs or specialized immune cells, this simple protective layer, ...
