A Conversation About Innovation in Food & Agriculture
A Conversation About Innovation in Food & Agriculture
Recent innovations in gene editing can save crops like oranges, cocoa beans and coffee beans from harmful diseases that have the potential to render them extinct. By embracing this technology, society can ensure that generations to come will still be able to enjoy our favorite foods — and increase access to affordable, nutritious food worldwide.
But come September, New York City will be privy to the most transformative menu yet—and at the hand of a surprising source, no less: The United Nations.
From pest and disease resistance to improved animal health, here are 11 awesome benefits of agriculture gene editing
PB&J is iconic. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who suffer from sensitivities to peanuts or wheat products. Here is how gene editing can help.
Thanks to Sanatech's tomatoes, doctors might soon prescribe salsa, Caprese salad, or fresh bruschetta as means for lowering blood pressure and staying healthy.
Besides being cold-weather recipe favorites, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cassava have something else is common. All of them can benefit from gene editing.
Plants and crops are vulnerable to two related threats: climate change and the rapid spread of insects due to warming temperatures.
Scientists can use gene editing to develop climate-friendly crops.
Gene editing is a tool that could avert the progression of a world plagued by climate change, food insecurity, and rampant disease.
CRISPR technologies, because they can be so precisely targeted and adapted to local conditions, can change the game for farm stand microenvironments
Of 16 proteins in a peanut grain known to trigger reactions in humans, only four have been identified as major allergens. CRISPR can help reduce allergenicity.
CRISPR scientists are well on their way to producing a wheat that retains taste, but whose genome is manipulated so that the wheat grows without gluten proteins
A Ghanaian researcher wants to remove genes convert beta carotene into other products—which will leave a higher beta carotene content in sweet potatoes.
We can use recent scientific advances, as well as plants' own genetic blueprints, to build on what makes our food healthy and even cut out what makes it harmful
Utilizing CRISPR, and associated gene-editing tools, scientists can improve crops with the utmost precision at the molecular level.
In the 1950s, the Cavendish banana surfaced as one of nature's miracles and a godsend to millions around the world. Now it’s at risk. Will CRISPR save the day?