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Viewpoint: We need fossil fuels, fertilizers, and pesticides — which improve crop production and keep food prices low
Thousands of Belgian and Dutch farmers are being sacrificed on the altar of climate change. They are losing their livelihoods ...
$10,500 for a bottle of perfume made with 8,000 flowers? Synthetic biology makes royal fragrances available at a fraction of that price
Perfume has historically been the indulgence of the rich. Many of the ingredients used by the nobility to scent the ...
Here’s a primer on the technology behind lab-grown meat
Between population growth and rising economic status, global demand for food protein is expected to continue to increase for a ...
Biomimicry and four other technologies that can limit carbon emissions from food production
Here are five major innovation trends that could help to curb the worst of the climate impact ...
How a genetic tweak boosted ethanol production and serendipitously yielded beef and dairy sustainability benefits
Enogen corn was developed using genetic engineering to add a gene for the enzyme alpha amylase which breaks down starch ...
‘Dawn of synthetic medicine’: How wearable devices can transform personalized medicine
We are at the dawn of synthetic medicine, which will forever change how doctors and patients approach healthcare. In fact, ...
Age of rejuvenation: Using ‘genetic Botox’ to target wrinkles, sagging and aging skin
In my previous articles, I covered the wonderful female medical doctors working in longevity medicine, female reproductive longevity and inequality, ...
Viewpoint: Satellites, artificial intelligence and smart machines key to addressing agriculture’s sustainability and social challenges of the future
Migel Tissera, Co-Founder and CTO of Metaspectral, says that technology has a significant role in improving agriculture sustainability ...
Viewpoint: Media hypocrisy — ‘What makes oil companies’ climate change disinformation different from ‘backward progressives’ GMO rejectionist campaigns?’
The media often has difficulty deciding what counts as obvious disinformation or falsehoods. But supposed disinformation about climate change is ...
Viewpoint: For centuries, grain yields remained stagnant — but they have tripled since 1960. We can thank biotechnology innovations
For centuries, yields for crops like corn remained relatively steady. Everything changed in the middle of the 20th century ...
4th agricultural revolution: Former energy secretary and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu challenges US to adopt climate sustainable genetic engineering
GMOs could have enjoyed a better reputation had their fame rested on genetically-fortified golden rice or on eggplant and cotton ...
Lab-grown seafood: Here’s a taste test and roadmap of its path to approval
Wildtype, a cell-cultured meat company pioneering the field of cellular agriculture to grow cuts of seafood, without fishing or fish ...
Solicitor General’s amicus brief ‘unwittingly makes strong case’ for Supreme Court intervention in latest Monsanto case
The U.S. Supreme Court invited the Solicitor General of the United States to express the government’s views on Monsanto’s appeal ...
Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines
Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox ...
With the US honeybee population stable, what are the challenges going forward?
There is a common phrase that appears in the popular press, in grant proposals and as a fund raising theme ...
Viewpoint: Is cell-based meat oversold as a sustainability solution?
A new report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems critiques the growing trend of alternative proteins. By promising a more ...
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 ...
