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Translated by: Shiva Bakhtiari- "In the name of God" I would like to begin by thanking Iran’s Biotechnology Society for bringing important issues such as genetic engineering and their impact on Iran’s development, to the attention of presidential candidates. As you mentioned biotechnology and ...

A new high-tech glass greenhouse in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S., simulates the growing conditions of any climate in different parts of the world. The research facility owned by Syngenta has 22 rooms which are virtually shadowless, with artificial ...

After years of suffering from blight caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, American chestnut trees may rise again through genetic engineering. Dr. William Powell of the State University of New York and Scott Merkle of the University of ...

SA Worldview-By Emily Waltz- There’s only one place to find comprehensive global data on biotech crops, and it’s not the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization or the World Bank or any national agency. It’s a tiny not-for-profit called the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech…

Naghmeh Abiri, Iran Biotechnology Information Center (RBIC)- Eight new transgenic goats with simplified method of cloning were born at Royan Institute for Biotechnology Research in Iran. Cloning techniques usually require advanced equipments and microscopes but we were able to ...

The Annual Meeting of ISAAAs Biotechnology Information Centers (BICs) was held on April 4 to 5, 2013 at Le Soleil de Boracay, Aklan, Philippines. Dr. Randy Hautea, Global Coordinator of ISAAA, gave the opening message to the group, emphasizing on the latest developments in ...

An international conference presenting the key findings of a research project Adoption and Uptake Pathways of GM/Biotech Crops by Small-scale, Resource-poor Asian Farmers in China, India, and the Philippines and their implications to biotech adoption particularly in ...

More than 400 million acres of genetically engineered (GE) crops have been grown in more than three dozen countries around the world. Plants produced in this way—also known as “genetic modification,” or GM—constitute the most rapidly adopted agricultural technology in history. Over three trillion servings of foods with…

More than a hundred members of the Philippine scientific and academic community, government agencies, regulators, farmers, private sector, media, and other stakeholders took part in a Special Seminar and Media Conference on the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2012.

Cows cant catch HIV but they can produce antibodies against the virus/ Scientists injected cows with HIV protein, and collected resulting antibodies from the milk/ they plan to create a cream for women to prevent HIV transmission.