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Viewpoint: How precision fermentation is changing the food system — and what you should know
Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as milk protein, animal fats, collagen, honey, ...
What has COVID taught us about shaping ideal vaccine policy going forward?
Employers, the federal government, the military, schools, and colleges have a vested interest in keeping their personnel healthy, reducing absenteeism, ...
Biotech-tweaked plants and meats are the ‘next big thing’ in food — but consumer demand remains a question mark
Upside Foods, which is developing cell-cultured meat, announced its acquisition of Cultured Decadence, a start-up that aims to make seafood from ...
Blue steak: Here’s how one start-up believes it can crack the cell-based food market with whole-cut tenderloins and filets
Barcelona-based bioengineering startup Novameat claims to have created the world's first meat substitute composed of ingredients sourced from every one of the ...
Fourth industrial revolution: How biotechnology is driving lightning fast change
What makes the fourth industrial revolution so different from previous industrial revolutions is the convergence and interaction between multiple technology ...
mRNA technology can revolutionize the flu vaccine, too
The reason the Covid-19 vaccines were developed so quickly is that they used a new, much faster and easier-to-create type ...
COVID vaccine protection: How long can we expect immunity to last?
Like most other vaccines, Covid vaccines don’t act as a foolproof barrier to infection but rather as a fire alarm ...
Why Joe Rogan is wrong about COVID mutations: ‘Evolution is, right now, occurring in the body of people who are not vaccinated’
Joe Rogan’s public misrepresentation of a 2015 vaccine study has gone viral. His misunderstanding of the study leads Rogan to ...
How epigenetics is poised to revolutionize food, farming and animal agriculture
Epigenetics studies the chemical compounds and proteins that can attach to DNA and direct the actions to turn a specific ...
Can synthetic biology be scaled up quickly enough to make significant progress against climate change?
In cities, something like 40 or even 50% of food doesn’t even reach our plates. [Claudia Vickers, Director of the ...
What’s the difference between dementia, Alzheimer’s, and age-related memory loss?
Alzheimer’s and dementia are diseases of the brain that are very different from memory problems of normal aging. They are ...
How effective are each of the COVID vaccines against the Delta variant?
A full course of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 64% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 [from the Delta variant], according to ...
Cow-free milk? Chicken-free eggs? Inside the quest to create real animal proteins with fermentation
[S]cientists are figuring out how to make animal protein without using any animal cells at all – by using fermentation ...
Ditching disposable: How a circular food system — where waste becomes new products — could boost food security and the economy
Linear economies follow a “take-make-dispose” plan in which raw materials are collected, transformed into a product and used until discarded ...
Cultured meat is key to a sustainable farming future, but its success depends on a key, yet-missing ingredient: Fat
“When it comes to tasty and realistic meat alternatives, what you need is texture, cooking performance, and taste. Plant-based companies ...
‘Less water, fertilizer, pesticides and land’? How next-generation soy and corn seeds optimized with CRISPR and AI can increase crop yields while lowering our carbon footprint
Inari wants to engineer crops that require less water, fertilizer, pesticides and land. The company is focusing on soybeans and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Crops were in the fields, but folks were going hungry’: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) can optimize how produce gets from the farm to your plate
"I can't think of a better or more noble application of artificial intelligence than into the food supply chain," says ...
Cattle industry sees real competition in growing alternative meat industry
The trend of moving away from the traditional burger intensified [recently], when it was announced that McDonalds and Yum! Brands ...
How this tiny lemur offers unique insight into the evolution of human vision
Recent research comparing the visual processing system of the gray mouse lemur with that of much larger and more recently ...
AI is reengineering what it means to be ‘human’
We have come together to fight Covid-19 and AI was a key enabler to bring to market vaccines, in unprecedented ...
Mosquitoes are one of humanity’s most dangerous enemies. Here’s how synthetic biology might lead to a long-lasting repellant
Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue, and Zika, are pathogens that can be transmitted through the bite of an insect ...
How RNA-based vaccines will revolutionize medicine and disease treatments
The two vaccine candidates produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are unlike any other vaccine that’s come before. Should they achieve ...
37%-to-60% of Americans say they are not sure they will get a vaccine. If that resistance holds, we won’t reach ‘herd immunity’ and COVID will not go away
The World Health Organization estimates that 65 to 70 percent of a given population must be vaccinated to halt the spread of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic crops are healthier than GMOs,’ and 6 other anti-science myths we should forget
As much as we hate to acknowledge it, many of the once-viable ideas that are swimming around in the memory ...
No country has yet approved human embryo gene editing
[F]our researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding human germline and heritable genome ...
How synthetic biology can eliminate pollutants in wastewater and soil
Allonnia launched with $40 million in funding to engineer and commercialize microbes to eliminate pollutants in wastewater and soil. "The waste ...
Viewpoint: Farming one of the ‘most inefficient industries.’ The CRISPR revolution could change that
Agriculture is one of the most inefficient industries on the planet. Current industrial farming methods demand unsustainable amounts of water, ...
Beyond Meat announces 2021 launch of leaner plant-based burgers to satisfy ‘health-conscious consumers’
As demand for plant-based products surge, Beyond Meat is making sure it keeps its health-conscious consumers coming back. The company ...
