Subsistence farmers in Bangladesh make a living by growing, harvesting and selling brinjal, or the fruit westerners know as eggplant ...

We're often told raising animals for food takes a devastating toll on the environment, consuming ever more natural resources, hastening ...

Leading geneticist and Nobel prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse reveals the audacious experiment that everyone said was crazy ...

Economic growth fueled by market reforms has cut poverty in the developing world drastically over the last 30 years. But ...

We have genetically engineered food; how about trees? In [June 8's] Academic Minute, North Carolina State University's Jason Delborne looks ...

Microbes surround us and enhance our lives in almost innumerable ways. These helpful micro-machines catalyze key reactions required to produce ...

Genetically modified salmon developed by biotech firm AquaBounty may soon be on the menu in the United States, possibly in ...

Christine Burkard, assistant professor of infection and immunity at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, says her team has devised a ...

Is farming for the aging? While Paul McCartney ponders, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when ...