Labiotech
Lab-grown babies: Synthetic eggs and sperm get closer to reality
The technique used to potentially develop lab-grown babies could hold the power to provide a novel treatment option for human ...
Biotechnology giant: Does China now lead the world in human and agricultural genetic engineering?
For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal, ...
How CRISPR gene editing is emerging as powerful tool to counteract climate change
CRISPR technology could be deployed in a wide array of food and agriculture applications. One major issue that CRISPR could fight is ...
Prospective UK precision breeding bill could unshackle gene editing from outdated GMO regulations
“There is a huge body of scientific evidence that modern genetic manipulation tools, whether that’s CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing or other ...
CRISPR-ing the cosmetics cabinet: Making global beauty industry more sustainable
The cosmetics industry is looking for greener ingredients as consumers demand more sustainable products. According to Jon Kratochvil at ERS ...
Turning waste into energy: Could biotechnology tackle a major tradeoff problem of modern agriculture?
For decades now, bioenergy has been posited as a renewable and clean source of energy. Biomass, particularly from forestry, is ...
Europe regulates gene-edited crops as GMOs. Will it ever have the tools to detect them?
To enforce GMO restrictions, EU member states first need a way to detect GMOs. So in 2002, the EU set ...
A question of accountability: How can we prevent the release of potentially harmful human-created organisms?
When it comes to risk from synthetic biology applications, one source of concern is the community of DIY biologists and ...
Meat from algae: The next plant-based contribution to sustainable food production?
Microalgae capture sunlight using pigments of vibrant colors, such as chlorophylls, carotenoids, and phycocyanin. In particular, the algae spirulina and ...
Despite Europe’s strict GMO rules, biotechnology can still help farmers feed the continent
The EU has recently laid out a series of targets to dramatically reduce the amounts of chemicals used in European ...
CRISPR coffee? And puppies? 10 novel uses for gene editing you probably didn’t know about
You might have heard of the tremendous potential CRISPR could have in treating disease. The technology is already accelerating the ...
GMO ‘fusion protein’ technology could expand genetic diversity in food crops, increasing farm sustainability
For many years, the only way to improve characteristics such as yield and nutritional value of crops was through selective ...
Viewpoint: From biofuels to food flavorings, here’s 10 ways biotechnology boosts sustainability
As climate change looms over our future, many industries are turning to biology for solutions to make all aspects of ...
Biofuel from GMO trees could cut global oil use, but EU biotech rules slow development
The looming threat of climate change is increasing the pressure to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. New technologies to ...
Fat from gene-edited plants could make infant formula more nutritious, less expensive
A team from the Rothamsted Research center, UK, has developed plants capable of mass-producing fat molecules resembling those in human ...
Microbial biofertilizer could boost sustainable farming as food demand booms
Agriculture is facing tough challenges in the years ahead, including a rising world population and arable land and water becoming ...
Food revolution: Will lab-grown meat, milk and eggs take over grocery stores?
It’s been 6 years since scientists grew the world’s first beef burger made without the cow in the lab. As ...
EU’s prohibitive gene-editing rules spur unprecedented backlash from plant scientists, crop biotech firms
The controversial decision by the European courts [in July 2018] to regulate gene edited organisms as GMOs has already had ...
Making a push for synthetic biology in Europe
Within a few years synthetic biology has evolved from being a new player in the molecular biology and biotech arena, ...
Deadly brain disease could be treated in the womb with gene therapy
A research team from the UK and Singapore showed that a neurodegenerative condition called Gaucher disease, which can be fatal, ...
Molecular pharming: Could cancer treatments one day grow on trees?
Could you imagine a world in which clinical treatments for illnesses such as cancer grew on trees? Professor Julian Ma ...
Non-GMO herbicide-resistant crops developed with process used ‘since the beginnings of agriculture’
Kaiima Bio Agritech works on boosting crop performance by using the plant’s own DNA, without the need of introducing external genes. In ...
How to address skeptical concerns about GMOs and ‘violating nature’
The main concern with GMOs seems to be rooted in a disgust for the artificial — “synthetic” has become synonymous ...
Are pest fighting GMO insects coming to a farm near you, impacting organic farmers?
Genetic modification of insects is used to create a self-limiting population. It’s a technological successor to the Sterile Insect Technique, in ...
Will economic protectionism prevent Europe from competing in crop gene editing race?
America and China are leading the development of new gene editing technologies via GMO production and bringing CRISPR to the ...
After 25 years, assessing progress of Human Genome Project?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Human Genome Project ...