Viewpoint: Why we need to get over our gene-editing fears and embrace optimized, climate-resilient crops

Viewpoint: Why we need to get over our gene-editing fears and embrace optimized, climate-resilient crops

Bill Anderson | Fast Company | 
As the planet warms, gene editing is one of our greatest hopes for developing resilient crops that allow for adaptation ...
Disease-resistant chickens? Gene-editing technology has potential to eradicate avian flu

Disease-resistant chickens? Gene-editing technology has potential to eradicate avian flu

Sy Mukherjee | Fast Company | 
A historic pandemic continues to rage, and it isn’t getting the attention it deserves given the virus’s toll. The outbreak ...
From Cavendish bananas to Arabica coffee, many favorite foods may succumb to disease and go extinct. CRISPR gene editing offers a solution

From Cavendish bananas to Arabica coffee, many favorite foods may succumb to disease and go extinct. CRISPR gene editing offers a solution

Juergen Eckhard | Fast Company | 
Some of our most beloved crops are currently under existential threat. Coffee, cacao, banana, and citrus fall into this unfortunate ...
Gene editing poised to rescue banana production from plant disease sweeping through Central America

Gene editing poised to rescue banana production from plant disease sweeping through Central America

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
There are more than a thousand types of bananas in the world. But one variety, the Cavendish, is ubiquitous in ...
Oatly pioneers carbon impact labels on food. Is this unregulated junk science or useful information?

Oatly pioneers carbon impact labels on food. Is this unregulated junk science or useful information?

Clint Rainey | Fast Company | 
Four of its so-called Oatgurts are now carrying an eco-label intended to help consumers “compare the climate impact of different ...
‘Making sci-fi a reality’: CRISPR gene editing can dramatically lower cost of cell-based  lab-grown meat

‘Making sci-fi a reality’: CRISPR gene editing can dramatically lower cost of cell-based lab-grown meat

Larissa Zimberoff | Fast Company | 
Most companies are trying to create lab-grown meat with little to no genetic engineering, which despite shifts in attitude is ...
Genetically-modified houseplant that can scrub the air? This startup may have a biological way to address pollution

Genetically-modified houseplant that can scrub the air? This startup may have a biological way to address pollution

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
It looks like an ordinary pothos, a common houseplant that you might already own. But a new plant called the ...
Exotic animals are off our plates for ethical reasons, but cell-cultivated meat could make cruelty-free substitutes a reality

Exotic animals are off our plates for ethical reasons, but cell-cultivated meat could make cruelty-free substitutes a reality

Brian Kateman | Fast Company | 
London-based company Primeval Foods focuses exclusively on cultivating exotic meats, such as lions, tigers, and zebras. Similarly, the Australian company Vow Foods ...
First CRISPR gene-edited drug expected to go on sale next year. Here’s what’s next

First CRISPR gene-edited drug expected to go on sale next year. Here’s what’s next

Sy Mukherjee | Fast Company | 
Soon we could see regulators approve the very first treatment using gene-editing technology in an effort to combat rare inherited ...
Rethinking anti-GMO sentiment: Antioxidant-filled ‘super tomatoes’ could reset public hesitation

Rethinking anti-GMO sentiment: Antioxidant-filled ‘super tomatoes’ could reset public hesitation

Mark Wilson | Fast Company | 
Any tomato breed can be transformed into a purple tomato. And purple tomatoes taste exactly the same as their source ...
Can lab grown meat be considered vegan?

Can lab grown meat be considered vegan?

Brian Kateman | Fast Company | 
Language is fascinating and complicated. Just as terms like “plant-based” and “vegan” are becoming widespread, their definitions seem to be ...
Learning from the healthcare revolution: How CRISPR and other biotechnologies could help protect our food system from a future plant pandemic

Learning from the healthcare revolution: How CRISPR and other biotechnologies could help protect our food system from a future plant pandemic

Jaqueline Heard | Fast Company | 
Across farms worldwide, there are now warning signs of a pandemic in food crops. More than 600 pest species have ...
‘Why is the US so retrograde when it comes to biotech?' — 'Supertrees' engineered to capture more carbon stir anti-GMO backlash

‘Why is the US so retrograde when it comes to biotech?’ — ‘Supertrees’ engineered to capture more carbon stir anti-GMO backlash

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
Capitalizing on trees’ ability to function as natural carbon capture machines, Reddit’s former CEO is now running a company that ...
Viewpoint: Herpes linked to COVID vaccine? Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post descends into conspiracy mongering

Viewpoint: Herpes linked to COVID vaccine? Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post descends into conspiracy mongering

Joe Berkowitz | Fast Company | 
Lately, the New York Post seems to be on a mission to scare as many people as possible out of ...
Tasty gluten-free bread and peanut allergy pills: How CRISPR is solving basic problems with our food system

Tasty gluten-free bread and peanut allergy pills: How CRISPR is solving basic problems with our food system

Ruth Reader | Fast Company | 
People will make do with gluten-free baked goods if they must, but the springiness of wheat is sorely absent. “It’s ...
Organic food, often linked with progressive politics, is also popular among white supremacists

Organic food, often linked with progressive politics, is also popular among white supremacists

Kristin Toussaint | Fast Company | 
While most people associate organic food and farmers markets with progressive politics and cosmopolitan values, they’re also a draw for ...
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Temper the celebration: 2-shot Pfizer COVID vaccine appears 90% effective but it’s not known for how long or its impact on severe cases

Michael Grothaus | Fast Company | 
Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine is reportedly successful in preventing 90% of infections according to early data from a Phase 3 ...
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Vaccination wars: In the fight against COVID-19, pro-vax movement emerges to battle vaccine denialism

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
A new advocacy campaign is designed to mobilize the majority to speak out to help fight [vaccine] misinformation, at a ...
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Infographic: What CRISPR is curing in 2020

Adam Bluestein | Fast Company | 
CRISPR-Cas9 is a method for quickly and accurately editing the genome of virtually any living thing. Using custom-built guide RNA ...
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Plant-based meat industry start-up Daring targeting chicken-free ‘chicken’, the world’s favorite protein

Talib Visram | Fast Company | 
Daring is an imitation chicken, which replicates the taste and texture of the familiar fowl, and which is targeted specifically ...
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‘Post-organic produce’: Expanding indoor farming industry aims to make agriculture more sustainable

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
If you live in the U.S., the last time you ate a salad, the lettuce inside it almost certainly came ...
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Pesticide-carrying bees help cut synthetic chemical use on farms

Ben Paynter | Fast Company | 
Bees are great at retrieving tiny cargo: their main job is to visit flowering plants in order to gather pollen ...
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Can CRISPR save the banana and revolutionize coffee? Tropic Biosciences believes so.

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
In a lab at a U.K. research park, researchers from a startup called Tropic Biosciences are using CRISPR to create a better ...
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Naturally decaffeinated CRISPR coffee and disease-resistant bananas? Tropic Biosciences takes big step towards commercializing both

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
In a lab at a U.K. research park, researchers from a startup called Tropic Biosciences are using CRISPR to create a better ...
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Safer silicon breast implants made with bioengineered silk coating

Ellie Anzilotti | Fast Company | 
Around 46% of women with silicone implants undergo re-operation within three years; 25% have their implants removed due to irritation, or the ...
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Video: World’s tiniest tape recorder made with CRISPR and built from microbes

Fast Company | 
[H]ere’s a use for the bacteria we bet you’ve never considered: Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have created the world’s ...
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Biohacker: How to genetically modify yourself

Adele Peters | Fast Company | 
“What we’ve got here is some DNA, and this is a syringe,” Josiah Zayner tells a room full of synthetic ...

Canned tomato soup: How genetic ‘profiling’ makes it tastier, healthier and safer—at a bargain price

Joseph Byrum | Fast Company | 
Over the past several years, billions of dollars have been poured into the ongoing research and development effort to improve ...
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