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iss072e146896 (Nov. 10, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague processes samples from the Rhodium Biomanufacturing-03 biotechnology experiment that explores using microorganisms and cell cultures to produce materials and biomolecules on a commercial scale in space.
16 February 2016, Rome, Italy - Ulrich Meyer, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany. Parallel session 1.2 Facing the challenges of climate change: Adaptation in the livestock and fishery sectors. FAO International Symposium on “The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition". FAO headquarters (Sheikh Zayed Centre).
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15 February 2016, Rome, Italy - FAO International Symposium on “The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition". Side event. Helping farmers grow: Climate change, food security and the technology nexus. FAO headquarters (Sheikh Zayed Centre).
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High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
The People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project investigates the role played by pigs in transmitting zoonotic diseases and the risk factors for human infection in western Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/University of Edinburgh/Lian Thomas).
DNA in a flask.
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High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
An aboriginal elder playing the Digeridoo at the International Association for Plant Biotechnology 2014 Congress at Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
iss073e0251619 (June 26, 2025) --- Axiom Mission 4 crew members Peggy Whitson (foreground) from Axiom Space and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from ESA (European Space Agency) work inside the International Space Station's Columbus laboratory module. The private astronaut duo swapped research hardware supporting the Space Volcanic Algae biotechnology study and the Experiment Cube #25 data processing and algorithm investigation.
High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
Finance Secretary, John Swinney, speaking at Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation to formally launch the new Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre, IBioIC.
Esteban Falconí (right), cereals program leader for Ecuador’s National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP), at work in a new biotechnology lab established at INIAP's Santa Catalina Experiment Station, not far from the city of Quito, Ecuador.
Until 2008, wheat research in Ecuador was in decline, as was wheat cultivation, thanks to cheap imports. While other staples were relatively unaffected, the global food price crisis of 2008 revealed this hole in the country's food security. When wheat prices spiked, Ecuador's government cushioned the blow by temporarily subsidizing imported wheat at great cost. Its long-term response was to institute a vigorous program to revitalize the nation's wheat production. Working with INIAP, the government set out realistic goals and provided about USD 4.3 million over 5 years for intensified wheat research and promotion.
The central aim of the new initiative is to expand Ecuador’s wheat area to about 50,000 hectares, enough to satisfy at least 30% of domestic demand, up from 3%. Less than two years after the 2008 decision, INIAP was already releasing improved varieties, the first in Ecuador since the early 1990s, including Vivar for southern Ecuador and San Jacinto for the country’s central and northern zones, both based on CIMMYT materials.
INIAP was able to release Vivar and San Jacinto so soon after the start of the initiative for two reasons. One was the government’s decision to thoroughly refurbish INIAP’s research infrastructure as well as to hire and train dozens more scientists and technicians. Equally crucial was CIMMYT’s unswerving support for local wheat research even during its time of relative dormancy in Ecuador. If that service had ceased, INIAP’s new wheat team would have been forced to start essentially from scratch, adding many years to the process of variety development.
Photo credit: Nathan Russell/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Ecuador's wheat awakening," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/872....