Genetic changes have the ability to alter crop characteristics, and some crop breeding techniques take advantage of this.

For 25 years, it was Joe Panetta’s job to tell the story of San Diego’s biotechnology community to the world. And the job ...

Upstream Biotechnology and Bene Seeds in strategic collaboration to develop high-yielding heirloom tomatoes Upstream Biotechnology, a Durham-based developer of innovative crop varieties resilient to ...

In an interview with the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Zarur said GreenLight’s 30-person Triangle operation is playing ... They can destroy an entire cornfield overnight and have had ...

The St. Louis-based company's R&D services will help accelerate the San Francisco Bay-area startup's development of novel ...

Figure 1: Trends in the GM crop, food and feed safety literature ... Note: Supplementary information is available on the Nature Biotechnology website.

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have developed a new sorghum variant that ...

A California-based agtech firm with a big St. Louis-area production facility is expanding its retail distribution.

The study, published in Plant Biotechnology Journal, reveals that engineered sorghum can accumulate up to 5.5% dry weight oil in leaves and 3.5% in stems, vastly surpassing unmodified sorghum. This ...

Developing rice with tolerance to higher nighttime temperatures has become a focus for rice breeders because studies are ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research ...

A new year means a new Fierce Biotech Fundraising Tracker to record all the venture capital being funneled into the industry for 2024. We're bumping up our reporting criteria from last year's ...