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Growing rice traditionally releases dangerous greenhouse gas. Here’s a solution
Rice is perhaps the world’s most important foodstuff — it feeds more than half the global population. But it is ...
Experimental fungi and ‘robotic bees’—Australia emerges as a global leader in merging technology with agriculture
While the US and China have been the biggest recipients of [agtech] investment, Australia is quietly becoming an ag-tech hotbed ...
25% reduction: People genetically prone to breast cancer, diabetes and other diseases would benefit from gene screening
A simple genetic screening test has the potential to stop almost a quarter of premature preventable deaths from common diseases ...
Viewpoint: Is ‘Big Food’ downplaying risks of ultra-processed foods?
The rising concern about the health impact of ultra-processed foods, or UPFs has recast the debate around food and public ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s trade and agricultural biotech policy is held hostage by environmental activists, hurting farmers and consumers
Recently, two more shiny new regulatory appliances started to roll off the EU’s legislative assembly line: a due diligence law ...
Battling skin diseases: Biotech-based skincare products aim to shut down genes responsible for unwanted inflammation and itchiness
A new biotech company that aims to harness the immune system to treat a range of skin diseases will launch ...
Viewpoint: While African nations embrace GM and gene-edited crops to address climate change challenges, EU lags further behind, even as food prices soar
While some richer nations dither over how to deal with biotech farming innovations, scientists in lower and middle income countries are ...
Podcast: ‘Intelligence explosion’ — Deep space is too far away for humans to explore, but AI may offer a work-around by uploading our brains into the cloud
Futuristic objectives that are at the centre of the AI industry’s quest for superintelligence and hear about the Extropians, ...
Here’s how natural biologicals can produce environmentally-friendly fertilizers and pesticides
There are few problems larger than the climate crisis. But one potential solution is so small it cannot be seen ...
Onslaught of droughts and war soften EU opposition to crop gene editing
When GMO technology first arrived in Europe in the 2000s it met fierce opposition in a region that prides itself ...
How seed gene banks are preserving biodiversity and providing a hedge against climate change
“It’s a tool against extinction — not just biological extinction but, also, the extinction of knowledge.” The facility at Palmira ...
French president Emmanuel Macron on Europe’s pro-organic, anti-biotechnology sustainable food strategy: ‘It was based on a pre-Ukraine war world and should be reviewed’
Brussels agreed two years ago to reform its farm practices as part of a drive to eliminate net carbon emissions ...
How the Russian invasion of Ukraine is stirring global food insecurity
Consumers around the world will feel the “enormous impact” of Russia’s war on Ukraine through sharply higher food prices and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Nature fetishism’ — Affluent Westerners increasingly reject science, spreading unwarranted suspicions about nuclear energy, biotech-modified seeds and vaccines
If you asked people to name the most dangerous ideologies of our time, common answers would be authoritarianism, racism and ...
Viewpoint: Harvard fellow on why crop engineering is crucial to addressing food security and growing sustainability challenges
We routinely assume that “natural” is better than “unnatural” when it comes to food. But it is more complex than ...
Vaccines appear less effective against virulently mutating COVID strains spreading through UK and South Africa
News that the B.1.1.7 [UK COVID] variant is evolving further mutations is worrying scientists, said Julian Tang, clinical virologist at ...
‘Ecocide’? Green groups blast France for lifting neonicotinoid pesticide ban to save sugar-beet growers
France has moved to reverse a ban on a class of pesticides only weeks after it came into force, reigniting ...
First experimental vaccine for coronavirus ready for human testing
Moderna has become the first company to release a potential coronavirus vaccine, with the Boston-based biotech start-up announcing on Monday ...
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna opposes germline-editing moratorium: ‘We’re going to have to figure it out’
Jennifer Doudna wears her responsibility lightly. The scientist who co-discovered Crispr does not appear to be weighed down by the ...
Alternative meat producers struggle to secure supply of yellow peas as demand for plant-based burger skyrockets
The soaring popularity of plant-based meat substitutes has shone a spotlight on a new star ingredient: the humble pea. From ...
Tyson Foods ends investment in plant-based protein startup Beyond Meat
Tyson Foods, the US meat producer, has exited its investment in Beyond Meat, the alternative protein company which is due ...
Why EU gene-edited crop rules may not be as ‘far-reaching’ as scientists fear
Gene editing is the biggest technical advance in bioscience since the discovery of “recombinant DNA” technology....[t]hat....led to the commercialization of ...
Scientists battle for consumer approval as crop gene-editing revolution advances
Genome, or gene, editing is regarded by scientists as the biggest technical advance in bioscience since “recombinant DNA” technology — ...
Diagnostics, drug discovery, disease: How CRISPR is solving medicine’s biggest problems
This is the public face of genome editing or, as it is sometimes called, gene editing: a technology capable of ...
McDonald’s eyes lab-grown meat as food, agricultural companies aim to cut environmental impact
The world’s biggest purchaser of beef is watching the plant-based meat market. “Plant-based protein is something we’re keeping an eye ...
Viewpoint: Chemical-free gardening is a myth
So-called “nature” is teeming with chemicals, in soil, in plants, in rain and not only in nettles. Chemical-free gardening is ...
Human testing on beta thalassemia patients: CRISPR readied for next milestone as early as this year
[R]esearchers demonstrated how a gene editing technique, known as Crispr-Cas9, could be used to edit living human cells, raising the ...
Fast-growing AquaBounty salmon could pave way for more genetically modified animals
When it was revealed over the summer that genetically modified salmon was now being sold in Canada, the backlash from ...
