Agriculture

Swiss researchers have developed a way to make lab-grown chocolate, using a single cocoa bean to create unlimited chocolate.

An oral cholera vaccine that’s grown in genetically modified rice and can be stored at room temperature has passed its first human trial.

Using gene editing, researchers created disease-resistant pigs that could save the pork industry billions of dollars every year.

A new CRISPR technology that focuses on gene activation rather than deactivation could help us create the superior crops of the future.

The Grain Weevil robot helps farmers manage stored grain, keeping them out of bins where they might lose their lives to grain entrapment.

African scientists have used CRISPR to create a disease-resistant banana that is indistinguishable from unmodified plants.

Beehives are under threat from common insecticides. But researchers created pollen-like microparticles to deliver an antidote.

Scientist Yuan Longping's hybrid rice helped feed the world. His wild rice discoveries and hybrid rice inventions in the 1960s and 1970s helped alleviate food scarcity across Asia and Africa.

At a smart farm in Australia, robots and AI will do all the manual labor, potentially foreshadowing agriculture’s "hands-free" future.

California startup Crop Swap LA has planted a “microfarm” in an LA resident’s front yard and is now distributing the crops throughout the local community.