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Overfishing and climate change have decimated Japan’s fishing industry. Gene edited fish is poised to rescue it
Fishing plays an important role in Japan’s economy and food supply, but overfishing and climate change have caused wild populations ...
‘Food without fresh water’: If ocean levels rise, farms around the world could be flooded with salt water. Here’s how we could keep crops alive
When irrigation water is introduced to a field, plants absorb the water, or it evaporates into the atmosphere. But the ...
Just one gene could restore the American chestnut — a tree that reckless humans once all but destroyed
An American nurseryman introduced the Japanese chestnut tree to the eastern U.S., accidentally introducing a blight fungus along with it ...
Why researchers are vacuuming ‘environmental DNA’ from the sky
Scientists have been using environmental DNA (eDNA) for more than 10 years to measure biodiversity and discover new species, often ...
African scientists have created a CRISPR-edited banana that’s resistant to a disease ravaging farms across the continent
Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is a bacterial disease that spreads easily and kills any banana plant it infects — farmers' ...
Intellia’s disease-eradicating CRISPR tool is injected directly into the bloodstream. Here’s why that’s such a big deal
CRISPR gives us the ability to correct genetic mutations, and given that such mutations are responsible for more than 6,000 ...
Billions of baby male chicks are slaughtered every year because they can’t lay eggs. Here’s how CRISPR gene editing could prevent them from being culled after birth
The problem: Chick culling is the practice of killing small, day-old male chicks with a variety of fairly gruesome methods ...
New hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients? CRISPR cured a mouse — and humans could be next
DMD is a fatal — and currently incurable — genetic condition that causes the body's muscles to deteriorate over time. ...