Bio Tech
“Intelligent Spinal Interface” – Aimed at Helping People With...
Supported with a new grant of $6.3 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team led by Brown University researchers will develop and test an...
Would you eat ‘meat’ from a lab? Consumers aren’t necessarily...
Interested in a juicy burger grown in the lab? Oliver Sjöström/Unsplash, CC BY Walter Johnson, Arizona State University; Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University, and Sheril...
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
Kletr/Shutterstock.com Michel Pimbert, Coventry University and Colin Anderson, Coventry University It is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and...
“Biotech Policy 2018” Aim to Invite International Stakeholders to...
The Odisha State Government unpacked its 'Biotech Policy 2018' that manifested the enormous possibilities and openings in the biotechnology area to draw in local and universal...
Lab grown Salmon to Rescue Global Ocean Food Crisis
Lab-grown salmon The company aims to offer salmon grown from stem cells to be used in both sushi and lox dishes. While products grown from cells are slaughter free - and...
FoodTech Startup “Terramino Foods” replicates meat/sea food with...
Terramino Foods, a San Francisco-based food startup, just reported a successful round of seed fundingresulting in $4.25 million. The company claims it will invest this capital...
We’re not prepared for the genetic revolution that’s coming
Shutterstock Robert Chapman, Goldsmiths, University of London When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped 15 years ago, it promised to change the world....
“3D” organ on a chip could accelerate search for new disease...
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional ‘organ on a chip’ which enables real-time continuous monitoring of cells, and could be used to develop new treatments for...
Can Science genetically strengthen endangered plants and agriculture?
Somatic embryogenesis is only used in selected agroforestry industries like sugarcane. Shutterstock Muhammad Nakhooda, Cape Peninsula University of Technology As the human...
Feeding the world with a mix of science and tradition
If we are going to reduce hunger in the world’s smallholder agricultural communities we need to look past genetically-engineered crops. Flickr/davidsilver Nick Rose,...