Cattle Breeders to Pay Cargill Licensing Fees to Conduct Genetic Work
In Australia, breeders and researchers conducting genetic research or testing will have to pay a licensing fee to Cargill USA and Branhaven LLC every...
No pain, no gain for family with genetic mutation that doesn’t allow them to...
In Italy, a family shares a gene variant that causes them to not feel pain sensations, which seemingly a positive thing, has its downsides...
Protein breakthrough opens up chemical remediation possibilities
In California, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a protein “mat” that can trap chemical pollution, including insecticides.
The work managed...
The Rise of Organic Manufacturing: Ginkgo, Amyris, Genomatica’s circle of innovation is a trend...
The factories of old — a technological wave that swept in with the Industrial Revolution — these were inorganic manufacturing centers, and they are...
Do Genetics Change Our Behavior? Researchers Find Evidence in Worms that Indicate So
In New York, researchers at Rockefeller University have been studying how worms’ genetics change behaviors over time, such as how they react with other...
GAO finds program that oversees hazardous materials labs don’t meet key elements
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Government Accountability Office published a report highlighting its findings after looking at the Federal Select Agent Program, which is...
Microbes get memory and…ahem…gas in latest engineering project
In Texas, researchers at Rice University successfully engineered microbes to have genetic memories of their environment and events and to give off response signals...
New Gene Editing Approach Speeds Up Precision Medicine
In Virginia, researchers have found a way to analyze gene mutations for cancer patients more quickly than ever before so that medicines and treatments...
agBOT Challenge 2017 Teams Forming for Unmanned Robotic System Competitions
In Indiana, competitors, including a wide range of schools, farmers and entrepreneurs from all over the country, are announced for the 2017 agBOT Challenge....
Boeing, SpaceX race to be decided by microbial engineering: report
The race between Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to put the first human on Mars may not be decided by who can build the...