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Growing diverse crops may not slow climate change as much as previously thought
Integrating perennial crops into corn and soybean rotations doesn't consistently increase the ability of soils to store carbon, according to ...
Microbe-coated seeds survive salty growing conditions in new study
Researchers at Florida International University have found coating seeds with a fungus and a bacterium could help valuable crops block ...
‘It seems so obvious’: How parasites influenced the evolution of human brains
It seems so obvious that someone should have thought of it decades ago: Since parasites have plagued eukaryotic life for ...
Hybrid corn boosts grain yields 89%, nitrogen use efficiency 73% over 70 years
During the past 70 years, hybrid corn varieties have increased both yield and nitrogen use efficiency at nearly the same ...
New CRISPR-based platform detects plant pests, identifies useful traits for crop breeding
SHERLOCK technology is a new CRISPR-based platform that is rapid and portable and enables detection and quantitation of plant genes ...
DNA ‘hot spots’ may explain why we are different from one another
What makes one person different from one another, and how did these differences evolve? A study by University at Buffalo ...
Swapping tractors for computer tablets: Is the future of farming digital and indoors?
Workers at Bowery Farming's warehouse near New York have swapped out a farmer's hoe for a computer tablet that takes ...
‘Ancient genes’ could point to our last universal common ancestor
Around 4 billion years ago there lived a microbe called LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor. ... If we trace ...
Can success in life be predicted by our genes?
A team of researchers from the U.S., the U.K. and New Zealand has found genetic variants that appear to confer ...
For all types of life, genetic diversity is ‘about the same’
Who would have suspected that a handheld genetic test used to unmask sushi bars pawning off tilapia for tuna could ...
Did life begin in water—or some other liquid?
[W]hile water is an indispensable solvent for all known life forms that exist today, water also inhibits the formation of ...
Cancer drugs could be grown in chicken eggs
Japanese researchers have genetically engineered hens whose eggs contain drugs that can fight serious diseases including cancer, in a bid ...
Can farmers reduce pesticide use but maintain expected yields? Study of French farms says yes
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in France has found that lowering the amount of pesticides ...
Video: Agricultural robot roams fields to monitor crops and their DNA
A semiautonomous robot may soon be roaming agricultural fields gathering and transmitting real-time data about the growth and development of ...
Nanoparticles: Parkinson’s, cancer, heart disease treatments boosted by DNA ‘barcodes’
Using tiny snippets of DNA as "barcodes," researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly screening the ability of nanoparticles ...
Nanoparticle-delivered CRISPR tools could treat hemophilia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy
More and more scientists are using the powerful new gene-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9, a technology isolated from bacteria, that ...
‘Dark genome’ could yield answers to complex genetic diseases
The mysterious majority – as much as 98 percent – of our DNA do not code for proteins. Much of ...
Random acts of kindness may be fueled by microbes
Why do people commonly go out of their way to do something nice for another person...and how could such altruistic ...
Insect resistant Bt corn losing effectiveness against earworm, study finds
Editor's Note: This article discusses a research paper called "Field-Evolved Resistance in Corn Earworm to Cry Proteins Expressed by Transgenic ...
Reprogrammable genes may make donor transplants easier for patients
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a novel strategy to reprogram cells from one type to another in ...
How pizza and Sudoku helped drastically cut time and cost of studying gene’s function
One of the best strategies scientists have to determine what a particular gene does is to remove it from the ...
Model predicts banning GMOs would spike greenhouse gas emissions and food prices
A global ban on genetically modified crops would raise food prices and add the equivalent of nearly a billion tons ...
High-elevation maize genes may hold keys to help crops adapt to changing climate
With the onset of climate change and changes in irrigation, adapting food crops to grow in diverse environments could help ...
New biofortified GMO rice could alleviate iron, zinc deficiencies
Rice is the staple food for billions of people throughout the developing world. But beyond easing hunger pains and providing ...
Regulators find no harm in GM mosquitoes despite public concern
A type of genetically modified mosquito made by the British company Oxitec should pose no danger to the environment, US ...
German institute deploys transgenics to fight harmful insects without toxins
South America is fighting a battle against tiger mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, dengue fever and the Zika virus. In ...
Scientists achieve breakthrough in large-scale stem cell production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Human pluripotent stem cells ...
DNA origami may lead to more complex biological structures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Ten years after its ...
