Sweet and sticky: Workers harvest sugarcane at a plantation in Tulungagung, East Java. The government recently approved the first transgenic sugarcane and other 13…
Posts published in May 2013
Dr. Michael Purugganan (May 27, 2013) The Court of Appeals recently struck a blow to GMO crops in the Philippines by its decision…
(May 22, 2013) Judel Jay Tabsing of Panabo National High School won fourth place in the plant sciences division of the Intel International…
This is an image, magnified a million times, of amyloid fibril, the type of protein structures that are formed in Alzheimer’s University of…
Our Heritage in Our Genes Biodiversity, the Filipino Genome, and More A Talk by Dr. Michael Purugganan 2:00-3:00 pm, Thursday, July 25, 2013…
The next wave of genetically modified crops is making its way to market — and might just ease concerns over ‘Frankenfoods’. By Daniel Cressey…
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Researchers use a protein-lipid complex found in human breast milk to increase the activity of otherwise-ineffective antibiotics against drug-resistant pathogens. By…
By Edd K. Usman Published: April 11, 2013 The Philippines is the third biggest earner among the world’s 28 countries that have adopted…
Hannah Warren and her parents Doctors culture a custom-made trachea from plastic fibers and human cells, and successfully implant it into a child…
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…