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Facing food security threats, Ghana makes 4-year commitment to promoting research and development on genetically modified crops

Bonface Orucho | Independent | 
The designation of Ghana as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) collaborating center for Africa, focusing on plant breeding and ...
A rechargeable glow-in-the-dark plant made with nanoparticles?

A rechargeable glow-in-the-dark plant made with nanoparticles?

Vishwam Sankaran | Independent | 
A rechargeable light-emitting plant that glows after being charged for 10 seconds with an LED is being hailed as an ...
As Uganda’s farm economy languishes, political forces block agricultural biotech innovation

As Uganda’s farm economy languishes, political forces block agricultural biotech innovation

Isaac Khisa | Independent | 
A maize breeder, with his team at the National Crop Resources Institute, Namulonge, [Dr. Godfrey Asea] has been researching on ...
Are rogue COVID variants ahead? ‘It’d be a brave person to say that the virus is nearing the end of its evolutionary route’

Are rogue COVID variants ahead? ‘It’d be a brave person to say that the virus is nearing the end of its evolutionary route’

Samuel Lovett | Independent | 
As the global infection count surges for a seventh consecutive week, after initial optimism that the pandemic had peaked, leading ...
Jurassic Park in real life? We have the technology to create ‘super exotic novel species,’ Neuralink co-founder claims

Jurassic Park in real life? We have the technology to create ‘super exotic novel species,’ Neuralink co-founder claims

Adam Smith | Independent | 
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak, who started the brain-computer interface company with Elon Musk, has claimed that humans have the technology ...
Grapevines that spent a year in space may help researchers breed crops better suited for climate change

Grapevines that spent a year in space may help researchers breed crops better suited for climate change

Akshita Jain | Independent | 
Researchers in France are studying a dozen bottles of French wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that returned to ...
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Heated copper mesh face masks that kill viruses may soon be available

Louise Hall | Independent | 
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have submitted a patent for a prototype mask with a heated copper mesh, a news ...
Skull of two-million-year old human cousin found in South Africa illustrates how ancient species adapted to new challenges

Skull of two-million-year old human cousin found in South Africa illustrates how ancient species adapted to new challenges

Joe Middleton | Independent | 
Academics from La Trobe University’s Archaeology Department in Melbourne, Australia led the excavation and reconstruction of the large-toothed rare skull from the Drimolen ...
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Stream music directly to your brain? Elon Musk’s new Neuralink gadget

Anthony Cuthbertson | Independent | 
[Elon] Musk confirmed that Neuralink’s technology would allow people to “listen to music directly from our chips.” He also said ...
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Mysterious Brazilian virus made largely of genes never seen illustrates ‘how much we still need to understand’ about microorganisms

Harry Cockburn | Independent | 
Viruses are some of the world’s smallest life-forms – and the jury is still out as to whether they actually ...
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‘Bee safe’ pesticides that replaced neonicotinoids may harm pollinators, activist-funded study finds

Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | 
New pesticides regarded as “bee safe” could actually be causing harm to these vital pollinators when combined with other chemicals ...
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Far from ape-like: Neanderthals walked upright, just like us

Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | 
Neanderthals walked with an upright posture just like modern humans, according to a new analysis. Over the years, reconstructions of ancient ...
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Federal regulators ask biotech experts if GMO trees should be deployed to save ‘dying’ US forests

Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | 
Plans are under way to plant swathes of genetically engineered trees across the ailing forests of North America in a bid to save them ...
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Using AI to predict evolution of cancer tumors could lead to stronger treatments

Jennifer Cockerell | Independent | 
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve, which could help doctors design the most effective treatment for each ...
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Ancient human species with orange-sized brain could have possessed modern human intelligence

Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | 
An ancient species of human with a brain no larger than an orange may have possessed intelligence to rival that ...
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Ancient art may have been created by people with autistic traits, study suggests

David Keys | Independent | 
Much of the world’s earliest great art is likely to have been created by gifted early humans on the autism ...
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Leukemia defense: Y-chromosome offers ‘extra layer of protection’

Alex Matthews-King | Independent | 
Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene that is only found in one sex and provides protection against ...
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Estonia launches genetic-testing program for 8% of its population

Chris Baynes | Independent | 
The Estonian government is to collect the DNA of 100,000 citizens to provide them with personalised health and lifestyle advice ...
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Double mastectomy improves prospects for patients with BRCA1 mutation but not BRCA2, study finds

Alex Matthews-King | Independent | 
Women with a mutant gene that increases their risk of breast cancer can increase their life expectancy with a radical ...
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Immunotherapy mystery: Drugs treat ovarian cancer ‘when they should not have’

Gina Kolata | Independent | 
[Four women with rare ovarian cancer], strangers to one another living in different countries, asked their doctors to try new ...
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Lab-grown human eggs may offer hope for the infertile

Alex Matthews-King | Independent | 
In a landmark development, scientists have been able to replicate the process where egg cells mature in the ovaries outside ...
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CRISPR could be the answer to genetic engineering’s prayers

Antoine Danchin | Independent | 
Since its introduction four decades ago, genetic engineering has been a source of high hopes for health, agriculture, and industry ...
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How living GMO algae could electrify rural Africa

Josh Gabbatiss | Independent | 
Fuel cells powered by living algae that are five times more efficient than current models, have been designed by scientists ...
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Why are children picky eaters? Genetics may play key role

Sabrina Barr | Independent | 
Children who are picky eaters may have their genetics to blame, a study claims. Researchers from the University of Illinois in ...
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How our autistic ancestors helped shape human evolution

Penny Spikins | Independent | 
[W]hen we talk about the autism spectrum – we are all “a bit autistic” – and we all fit somewhere ...
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New rice variety that grows in salty water could feed millions in China

Ben Kentish | Independent | 
Scientists in China have developed several types of rice that can be grown in seawater, potentially creating enough food for ...
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Breast cancer linked to 65 newly-found genetic variants

Andrew Griffin | Independent | 
Women who have a strong family history of breast cancer have double the chance of developing it themselves. But the ...
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Alzheimer’s memory loss may be reversible, after all

Olivia Petter | Independent | 
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s affecting patient’s memories could be reversed, new research from MIT indicates. It might be possible to break down the ...
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