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Members of Congress want to control high drug prices by fiddling with an IP law. But could the change hamper agricultural innovation?

07.14.2021

Lela Nargi

“Fire blight” is the most devastating apple disease. Wild apples could help growers fight back.

07.09.2021

by James Dinneen

How biodiversity conservation can help manage future pandemics—for plants and for humans

05.21.2021

by Simran Sethi

Why combining farms and solar panels could transform how we produce both food and energy

03.30.2021

by Chris Malloy

America’s biggest retailers and foodservice companies have already agreed not to sell GMO salmon

02.11.2021

by Sam Bloch

We’re told that healthy soil sequesters huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Scientists are finding that’s not always the case.

01.28.2021

by Jessica Fu

Climate change is bringing back long-lost forms of food poisoning

11.19.2020

by Emma Penrod

What does a vertical farm taste like?

09.22.2020

by Jessica McKenzie

Intellectual property and trademark protections for fruit-growing plants are on the rise—and so are the lawsuits

07.28.2020

by Lela Nargi

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