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Back to SearchBt Brinjal in Bangladesh
Episode 195
Bangladesh is a population dense country with relatively little farmland. Subsistence farmers make a living by growing, harvesting and selling brinj…
6 years, 10 months ago
Countering Disinformation in Africa
Episode 194
The African continent is emerging in many ways, yet still is developing economically. Technology is a huge part of the African transformation, yet f…
6 years, 10 months ago
Domesticating Bacteria for Industrial Production
Episode 193
Bacteria surround us and have specialized functions in adaptation and metabolism. Could they be helpful as micro machines that catalyze key reactio…
6 years, 10 months ago
Curing PRRS with Gene Editing
Episode 192
Pork production worldwide is limited by a series of viral pig diseases that slow growth, cause illness and restrict reproduction. One of these is kn…
6 years, 11 months ago
Indian Farmers Protest for Technology Access
Episode 191
While Indian farmers have realized benefits from GE cotton, food crops have been forbidden from this growing country. Their neighbor to the west, Ba…
6 years, 11 months ago
Glyphosate: The Murder of a Molecule
Episode 190
The war against agricultural biotechnology shifted in the last several years. Carefully constructed steps by those opposed to technology have manage…
6 years, 11 months ago
Dinosaurs, DNA and De-Extinction
Episode 189
The visions of Jurassic Park are an extrapolation of actual research being performed all over the world. Research has shown that avian dinosaurs (bi…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Fruit and Vegetable Production
Episode 188
Technology is exploding in all areas of life, but sadly has been slow to reach agriculture. We are stuck in the rhythms of old unsustainable practic…
6 years, 11 months ago
African Biotechnology Update
Episode 187
There is sad irony that the African continent has the most potential benefit from crop biotechnology, yet has the least access to the technology. Th…
7 years ago
Blackberry Domestication and Breeding
Episode 186
Blackberries are a popular, healthy fruit with increasing availability to the consumer. Over the last century significant progress has been made in …
7 years ago