Reimagining our global food system
Reimagining our global food system is an urgent priority and Pivot Bio are doing just that with their soil microbiome product. They’re replacing synthetic nitrogen nitrogen...
Category : Microbiome/Genomics
Gene editing to feed the world
“Inari’s multiplex gene-editing technology can increase soybean yield by 20% and corn yield by 10% while lowering water usage by 40% and reducing corn’s nitrogen...
Increasing crop yields with biostimulants
Increasing crop yields is a great contribution to meeting the challenge of sustainably and equitably feeding 10 bn people in 2050. One technology for addressing...
The Space Rice Race
What on earth is “Space Rice”? It’s amazing what we consider to be “natural” or “normal” and you’ll be surprised how many of your foods...
Bioengineered is not a dirty word!
Most people don’t care if a product is “Bioengineered” or not, that’s good news! We’re faced with feeding 10 billion people by 2050, a growing...
Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio
As I’ve said before, “Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio” One of my favourite synbio ag companies, Pivot Bio, demonstrates this...
CRISPR editing for crisper greens
“Apples that don’t brown. Lettuce that never wilts. Strawberries that burst with flavor.” That’s the promise of CRISPR editing of these products by the company...
Rise of the personalised microbiome
In one of the latest advances in personalised microbiome research we have Harvey and Harvetta, “virtual physiological humans”! These “virtual male and female human metabolic...
Bite Sized Update! Live 10 years longer doing these 5 things!
Some simple advice that, in the end, tells us what we should already know! A 20-year study of more than 111,000 people found that a...
Wellness megatrend and the Future of Food
Why is this significant? The wellness megatrend is one of the biggest potential influences on the Future of Food and the Waitrose report demonstrates its...