Agricultural biotechnology aims to improve crop yields, enhance nutrient content, and develop plants resistant to pests, diseases, and environmental stresses. Examples include: Genetically modified ...

Crops directly feed us or animals we keep for food. They are commonly cereals, fruit and vegetables. We can change (or modify) crops in two key ways - selective breeding and genetic modification.

History provides us with many examples of yucky biotechnology: GM crops containing insecticidal bacterial genes; mice engrafted with human ears on their backs; baboons with transgenic pig hearts ...

Despite limited resources the countries studied have found ways to use biotechnology to meet local health needs, even for the poor. For example, South Africa is responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic ...

In recent years, Mainz has gained international reputation as a successful life sciences and biotechnology hub, which is ...