the us Department of Energy is putting up $122 million to help humans capture the energy of the sun and create renewable liquid fuels through “artificial photosynthesis.”

How human proteins are made from DNA can be followed in real time.

Cisgenics is being held up as a plant breeding technology distinct from the techniques that produce GM food. I think not.

An Australian Government-funded research project aims to advance the understanding of second generation biofuels.

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US scientists have found a cluster of inactive genes in induced pluripotent stem cells that may be responsible for their limitations compared to embryonic stem cells.

Food security is an issue that looms large in the minds of the world’s leading scientists. Will this translate into any action or are there too many human-inspired hurdles?

Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, following analysis of 17 years of data

Without doubling our research investment in R&D for agriculture and food production we face one of the greatest famines in history.

Researchers have modified algae to grow human therapeutic proteins that treat a range of diseases at levels suitable for commercial production.