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Losses due to Ug99, a devastating fungal disease that affects wheat in many parts of the world including developing countries Bangladesh and Kenya can now be controlled using ...

Scientists have developed a gene therapy strategy that could feasibly treat both β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. The technology is based on delivery of a lentiviral vector carrying both the human β-globin gene and ...

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) holds an Annual Meeting of its global information network – the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology and the Biotechnology Information Centers (BIC).

ISNA reported that Kimia Kashani M.Sc. of plant biotechnology and breeding from University of Tarbiat Modares under supervision of cooperation of Dr. Mokhtar Jalali studied aberrant organogenesis in potato and the possibility of human pro-insulin gene transfer.

(Thursday, March 01, 2012) ISLAMABAD: Despite late start, the country has achieved a substantial economic gain through biotechnology application (cotton).

The farming community last week urged the government to approve the genetically modified corn, which is being planted successfully across the globe, for commercial plantation in Pakistan.

A 94-fold increase from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 160 million hectares in 2011 makes biotech crops the fatest adopted crop technology in recent history. A record 16.7 million farmers planted biotech crops, over 90% of whom were from developing countries.

Scientists have developed Bt proteins for the management of Bt resistance in European corn borer and other crop pests. (October 19, 2011)

The secretary of the National Biosafety Council of Iran, Dr. Alireza Morshedi with reference to food security issue at global scale said: “there are 1.2 billions of starving people in the world so we have no choice but to use new technologies.”

Monday, January 23, 2012. A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults.