Tag: agriculture
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Crispr Deployed to Stop Disease, Pest Insects
A genetics lab is using the genome editing technique Crispr to create sterilized male insects, which can lead to fewer disease-spreading and farm pest insects.
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Top-Rated Agricultural Careers
There is and always has been a lot of exciting work happening in the agricultural landscape.
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Sustainable Bioplastics Produced from Microbes, Algae
Researchers in Israel showed in lab tests the feasibility of producing biocompatible and degradable plastics from ocean microbes and algae.
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Growing Crops And Your Agribusiness
It is worth bearing in mind that growing your business does not involve the same skills and growing your crops.
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Changes Shaping More Eco-Friendly Agriculture
There are serious concerns that the agricultural industry has been having a dramatic impact on the environment, both in their own local areas and on a broader, global scale.
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Faster Crop Breeding Techniques Made Available to Other Scientists
Plant scientists in the U.K. and Australia are making available to their colleagues experimental techniques that speed-up breeding cycles for more commercial crop varieties.
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FDA Preparing Animal, Plant Biotech Regulatory Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration intends to issue new regulatory guidance to cover advances in biotechnology, including genome editing, in animals and plants.
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BASF Licensing Precise Crispr Editing from Broad Institute
The global chemical company BASF is licensing a more precise form of genome editing from the Broad Institute, a genetics research center affiliated with Harvard University and MIT.
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Licensing Deal for Bioinks in 3-D Printed Transplant Lungs
A company in Maryland developing alternatives to human organ transplants is licensing a technology to help create 3-D printed lungs for transplantation with bioinks derived from tobacco plants.
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Genome Editing Offers Marketable Wild Tomato
The groundcherry, a wild tomato plant that its devotees say has a delicious and unusual flavor, could be grown on farms for sale to consumers thanks to a genome editing project at two New York research institutes.