Bio Security

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if we could make organisms including humans resistant to genetic engineering technology? Maybe we…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Anti-Biotic resistance is a growing problem, and researchers and governments are increasingly desparate for solutions…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Plants are a rich source of information – if you can communicate with them that…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our mastery of synthetic biology improves so too does our ability to create new…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to quickly and easily tag foods and other products with sensors and other…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Inventors have found a novel way to combine new technologies together to help fish farmers…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The global seed bank at Svalbard in the depths of the Arctic Circle is humanity’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Every year in the UK over 36,000 cattle that contract TB are culled, but now…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In recent years Ash trees have been decimated by ash dieback disease, now that scientists…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Scientists now have the knowledge and the tools they need to create, and deliver, Doomsday…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Global food production is already being stretched by Earths growing population with the price of…