USDA to build Texas facility to fight flesh-eating screwworms
On Aug. 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $750 million to build a…
Mars Partners with Pairwise to Accelerate Cacao Research Using CRISPR platform
On Aug. 6, Mars has licensed Pairwise’s Fulcrum® gene editing tools for cacao research and development. This licensing…
Scientists Achieve Megabase-Scale Precision Genome Editing in Eukaryotic Cells
On Aug. 5, 2025, a team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of…
Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk
On Aug. 4, 2025, The Florida Department of Health said on Monday that there have been 21 cases…
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China approving innovative drugs at record pace as discovery momentum shifts from the West
On Jul. 24, 2025, The China Times reported that China is making inroads in the race for innovative…
Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk — California and Four Other States
On Jul. 24, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that during October 2023–March…
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US farm agency fires 70 foreign researchers following national security review
On Jul. 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it has fired 70 foreign contract researchers after…
U.S. Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
On Jul. 9, 2025, Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case…
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APHIS Deregulates First Pale Cyst Nematode-Infested Field in Program History
On Jul. 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in partnership…
USDA Announces the Phased Reopening of Southern Ports for Livestock Trade
On Jun. 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced risk-based port re-openings for cattle, bison, and…
TSU Breaks Ground on New $90 Million Agriculture Facilities
On Jun. 26, 2025, Tennessee State University leaders, dignitaries, and College of Agriculture faculty broke ground on the…
Penn engineers turn toxic fungus into anti-cancer drug
On Jun. 25, 2025, researchers at the University of Pennylvanis’s School of Engineering and Applied Science announced they…
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
On Jun. 25, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a…
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USDA Announces Plan to Combat New World Screwworm’s Northward Spread
On Jun. 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it has launched an $8.5 million sterile New…
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Arizona Agriculture Officials report poultry tested positive for Avian Influenza at Fourth commercial farm
On Jun. 6, 2025, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) reports poultry at a fourth commercial farm located…
Brazilian Biotech Company develops technology to produce milk proteins without cows
On Jun. 4, 2025, Brazilian biotechnology startup company Future Cow, announced it can produce milk proteins without the…
New tomato varieties from Bayer offer protection against resistance-breaking Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus
On Jun. 4, 2025, Bayer announced it has developed new tomato varieties that provide growers advanced solutions in…
Study Shows Live bird flu virus can survive in raw milk for a week
On Jun. 4, 2025, an international team of researchers published a study in the preprint server medRxiv that…
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Arizona Department of Agriculture reports poultry at a third commercial farm tested positive for Avian Influenza
On Jun. 2, 2025, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) reported that poultry at a third commercial farm…
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Arizona reports Second commercial farm in Maricopa County tested positive for Avian Influenza
On May 27, 2025, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) reported that poultry at a second commercial farm…
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Arizona Department of Agriculture reports Avian Influenza Detected at commercial farm
On May 20, 2025, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) reported that poultry at a commercial farm located…
Bird-flu vaccine for cattle aces early test
On May, 20, 2025, a team of scientists has developed a fresh approach: the first mRNA bird-flu vaccine…
USDA Suspends Live Animal Imports Through U.S.-Mexico Border
On May 11, 2025, U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports…
Merck Animal Health and State of Kansas Announce $895 Million Investment in Manufacturing and Research & Development Facilities
Om My 8, 202, Merck Animal Health and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly jointly announced today the $895 million…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to lure scientists as Trump battles universities
On May 5, 2025, The European Union (EU) and France announced half a billion euros worth of incentives…
Agriculture Minister Announces Two Genome-Edited Rice Varieties Developed in India, a World First
On May 4, 2025, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that two genome-edited…
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
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FDA approves gene-editing tech creating PRRS-resistant pigs
On Apr. 30, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of a gene-editing technology…
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CDC Taps Texas A&M School Of Public Health To Assess Avian Flu Among Dairy Farm Workers
On Apr. 28, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had awarded a more than $3…
Century-old genetics mystery of Mendel’s peas finally solved
On Apr. 23, 2025, a team of researchers led by the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, UK,…