January 8, 2025

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A new way to determine whether a species will successfully invade an ecosystem

December 17, 2024

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A new method to detect dehydration in plants - Sensors developed by SMART researchers are capable of detecting pH changes in plant xylem enable farmers to detect drought stress up to 48 hours before visible physical symptoms manifest

November 26, 2024

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Green Revolution redux - Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? (MIT Technology Review)

November 4, 2024

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How a breakthrough gene-editing tool will help the world cope with climate change - Jennifer Doudna, the co-developer of CRISPR, says there’s a “coming revolution” in climate-adapted crops and animals

July 3, 2023

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Researchers uncover new CRISPR-like system in animals that can edit the human genome - The first RNA-guided DNA-cutting enzyme found in eukaryotes, Fanzor could one day be harnessed to edit DNA more precisely than CRISPR/Cas systems

October 21, 2022

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Why scientists want to help plants capture more carbon dioxide (MIT Technology Review)

July 14, 2022

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Heat is bad for plant health - Here's how gene editing could help (MIT Technology Review)

April 25, 2022

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Une céréale génétiquement modifiée pour mieux capter l’azote de l’air (Le Monde)

Engineered plant control of associative nitrogen fixation (PNAS)

October 6, 2021

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MIT Sloan and Bayer team up to cultivate digital intrapreneurship capability - Corporate innovation leaders at Bayer engage MIT Sloan Executive Education in a transformational data science and intrapreneurship program

September 15, 2021

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New programmable gene editing proteins found outside of CRISPR systems - RNA-guided enzymes are more diverse and widespread than previously believed

July 19, 2021

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Crean recubrimiento para aumentar productividad de semillas en condiciones de sequía (El Periódico)

July 9, 2021

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Maroc - Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) et l'Université Polytechnique Mohammed VI (UM6P) développent des semences résistantes à la sécheresse (Le Desk)

July 8, 2021

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Engineering seeds to resist drought - A new seed-coating process could facilitate agriculture on marginal arid lands by enabling the seeds to retain any available water

March 26, 2021

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Broad Institute launches the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center to connect biology, machine learning for understanding programs of life

January 5, 2021

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Portable device can quickly detect plant stress - Sensor developed by SMART researchers would allow rapid diagnosis of nutrition deficiency in plants, enabling farmers to maximize crop yield in a sustainable way.

July 1, 2020

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Nature-inspired CRISPR enzymes for expansive genome editing - Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences

April 27, 2020

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Engineers develop precision injection system for plants - Microneedles made of silk-based material can target plant tissues for delivery of micronutrients, hormones, or genes

April 15, 2020

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Nanosensor can alert a smartphone when plants are stressed - Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged

January 15, 2020

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Making real a biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops - At MIT, Christopher Voigt bab's work could eventually replace cereal crops’ need for nitrogen from chemical fertilizers.

November 25, 2019

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Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands - A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes

April 12, 2019

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Scientists going “cyber” on agriculture grows the tastiest basil ever (The Science Times)

March 28, 2019

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SMART novel nanotube carriers may revolutionise gene-delivery in live plant

February 28, 2019

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An easier way to engineer plants - ​MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplasts

February 25, 2019

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An easier way to engineer plants - MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplasts

December 5, 2018

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Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine

December 13, 2017

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Engineers create plants that glow - Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting

October 18, 2017

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DuPont Pioneer and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard join forces to enable democratic access to CRISPR licensing in agriculture                                                                                

October 11, 2017

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Finding the root cause of plant resilience 

October 4, 2017

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On the road to making cereals that consume nitrogen from air 
Hacia la elaboración de cereales capaces de consumir el nitrógeno del aire