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ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2012) — Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute demonstrated for the first time that the Anopheles mosquitos innate immune system could be genetically engineered to block the transmission of the malaria-causing parasite to humans.

New discoveries on how corn defend itself from pathogens have been recently reported in the journals Plant Physiology and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2012) — Providing clues to deafness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene that is required for proper development of the mouse inner ear.

Three papers published simultaneously in Nature have provided new insights into the network of interactions between HIV-1 and human proteins, and identified potential new targets for therapeutic intervention. In one of the papers...

On October 18, 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published its decision in Brüstle v. Greenpeace. The Court ruled that processes that involve the derivation of stem cells from a human embryo at the blastocyst stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, could not be patented.

Traditional food crops and other plant varieties worldwide are in urgent need of protection from climate change and other environmental stresses, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, as it observed the tenth anniversary of the international treaty to protect and share plant genetic resources.

Each year, millions of farmers around the world plant biotech crops for higher yields, improved crop quality and the ability to use sustainable farming practices such as no-till. Getting these innovative new traits from the lab to their fields requires a tremendous investment – a new research survey reveals how it all…

According to the United Nations, the global population has now reached 7 billion. This implies that there must be greater efforts in addressing hunger and food security.

Biotechnology Information Center of Egypt (EBIC), in collaboration with Cotton Research Institute, Faculty of Agriculture at Cairo University, Plant Protection Institute, and Monsanto Egypt, organized a visit to Bt cotton field trials in Sakha Experimental Station at Kafr El-Shikh, Delta.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) — New York University and University of Iowa biologists have identified a key mechanism controlling early embryonic development that is critical in determining how structures such as appendages arms and legs in humans grow in the right place and at the right time.