Humanity depends on the agriculture sector to produce our food, feed, and fiber, and that demand continues to grow. Increasingly we look to crops as more climate-friendly sources for fuels, plastics a...
Tag: Genetics
Developing A DNA Test That Could Detect A Devastating Mango Fungus
Catalina Salgado-Salazar in her lab in Beltsville Maryland on March 27 2022. Catalina Salgado-Salaza Colombian mycologist Catalina Salgado-Salazar is helping to develop a genetic test to identify a fu...
30-year-old female founder’s billion-dollar bet on CRISPR gene editing
Janice Chen (C) and her Mammoth Biosciences co-founders Trevor Martin (L) and Lucas Harrington (R). CRISPR gene editing pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna is also a co-founder. Along Highw...
Tennis Star Chris Evert Teaches Us That Genetic Testing Is A Lifetime Match
LOS ANGELES, CA – 1988: Chris Evert (Photo by Robert Riger/Getty Images Getty Images This weekend, Chris Evert tweeted that she was diagnosed with early-stage (Stage 1C) ovarian cancer, which is...