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#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Agriculture

#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Paul Winters 4 Dec 2023

Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Food Security

Bird flu could be eradicated by editing the genes of chickens - our study shows how

Alewo Idoko-Akoh 3 Nov 2023

China to adopt genetically modified maize and soy: Why it matters for South Africa

Agribusiness

China to adopt genetically modified maize and soy: Why it matters for South Africa

Wandile Sihlobo 17 Jun 2022

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Ethics & Medicolegal

WHO guidelines on human genome editing: why countries need to follow them

Sheetal Soni 23 Aug 2021

Any man-made changes to the human genome must be carefully regulated. Billon Photos/Shutterstock

Ethics & Medicolegal

Five principles that should guide future DNA 'editing' in South Africa

Bonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Research & Development

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021

The fourth agricultural revolution is coming - but who will really benefit?

Agri Tech

The fourth agricultural revolution is coming - but who will really benefit?

David Rose and Charlotte-Anne Chivers 16 Sep 2020

New technologies are helping people to choose when and how to have children. MidoSemSem/Shutterstock

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

New technologies mean states must reconsider what 'reproductive rights' are

Bonginkosi Shozi 23 Jul 2020

Looking to science for food security solutions

Food Security

Looking to science for food security solutions

Chyreene Truluck 27 May 2020

A researcher performs a CRISPR/Cas9 process at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine in Germany . Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 and gene editing: ethical and legal considerations

Sheetal Soni 25 May 2020

Medical Research

Human gene editing: who decides the rules?

Sheetal Soni 16 Jan 2020

Three ways farms of the future can feed the planet and heal it too

Agriculture

Three ways farms of the future can feed the planet and heal it too

Karen Rial-Lovera 24 Dec 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

Digital

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019 full schedule announced

Events & Conferencing

SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019 full schedule announced

Issued by Mann Made 19 Sep 2019

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Medical Research

Human Genome Project: new alcohol abuse study could help us finally unlock secrets to beating genetic diseases

Alasdair Mackenzie 18 Mar 2019

Bio-punks and the democratic DIY design of the human body

Design

Bio-punks and the democratic DIY design of the human body

Bronwyn Williams 14 Dec 2018

Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com

Medical Research

Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Professor Musa Mhlanga

Medical Research

Unravelling how immune genes work

13 Dec 2018

Can patents help regulate future experimentation with designer babies?

IP Law

Can patents help regulate future experimentation with designer babies?

Daniel Mak 5 Dec 2018

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim of making the world’s first gene-edited babies.
AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Medical Research

How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby - and what health worries may ensue

George Seidel 3 Dec 2018

Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops

Agriculture

Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops

James Hereward and Caitlin Curtis 25 Oct 2018

Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47%

Research & Development

Helping plants remove natural toxins could boost crop yields by 47%

Paul South 27 Jun 2018

These CRISPR-modified crops don't count as GMOs

Agriculture

These CRISPR-modified crops don't count as GMOs

Yi Li 23 May 2018

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Education

Next Einstein Forum awards high impact innovations

4 Apr 2018

Huntington’s neurons show multiple nuclei (blue) within the same cell, and other signs of trouble, long before symptoms emerge.

Medical Research

Research shows Huntington's disease originates in embryonic development

13 Feb 2018

Agriculture

Is this goodbye? Chocolate producing plants will go extinct by 2050

Njideka Agbo 9 Jan 2018

Genetic tool that can doom a species under UN review

Medical Research

Genetic tool that can doom a species under UN review

6 Dec 2017

HIV/AIDS

Nick Walker's master plan to cure HIV

Jessica Tennant 7 Apr 2017

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

Agriculture

The challenge ahead: Harnessing gene editing to sustainable agriculture

Nteranya Sanginga 31 Mar 2017

Agriculture

Research and study fostering the adoption of new techniques in biotech agriculture

27 Feb 2017

Consumer trends in North Africa

Branding

Consumer trends in North Africa

7 Feb 2017

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Food, Water & Energy Security

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Laura Pereira et al. 6 Jan 2017

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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

How science can genetically strengthen endangered plants and agriculture

Muhammad Nakhooda 24 Jun 2016

Yale scientists use gene editing to correct mutation in cystic fibrosis

Medical Research

Yale scientists use gene editing to correct mutation in cystic fibrosis

Ziba Kashef 27 Apr 2015