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Dr Yusuf Zafar, who is the director general of agriculture and biotechnology division at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and member, Public Research and Regulation Initiative was declared ‘Scientist of the Year-2012’ for his ...

A team of 300 scientists successfully sequenced the genomes of tomato, which will lower costs and increase efforts to improve worldwide tomato production. Thursday, May 31st 2012. Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of tomato ...

A workshop on Environmental Biosafety was concluded last week at the Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB), Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. This workshop was conducted as ...

A new research by the University of Bristol found that plants grown at high temperature elongate stems to allow their leaves to cool. The research team, led by ...

Researchers at the Iranian Biological Resource Center (IBRC) were able to successfully identify the country second native archaea.

Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI) submission in response to CBD Notification 2012-016 requesting Parties and stakeholders to submit information on identification of living modified organisms that ...

An international team of scientists said Sunday the largest brain study of its kind had found a gene linked to intelligence, a small piece in the puzzle as to why some people are smarter than others. A variant of this gene "can tilt the scales in favor of a higher intelligence", study leader Paul Thompson told AFP,…

(Nature-08 May 2012) Approval of a ‘biologic’ manufactured in plant cells may pave the way for similar products.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2012) — Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principle that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated that these cells can...

Biotechnological approaches are essential for effective virus disease management in major crops in the Philippines, said University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Associate Professor Dr. Filomena Sta. Cruz...