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Perspectives

Precision Microbiome Editing 101 with Brady Cress and Ben Rubin
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Press Releases

IGI Scientists Make Strides in Protecting Rice from Drought 
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Perspectives

Improving Photosynthesis to Fight Climate Change
Press Releases

First-of-its-kind Course Trains African Scientists to use CRISPR to Adapt Agriculture to Climate Change
Fruit flies expressing red eye and green body fluorescent markers demonstrated the viability of a new system for safely converting split gene drives into full gene drives.
Press Releases

Researchers Create New System for Safer Gene-Drive Testing and Development
IGI News, COVID-19

The IGI’s 2022 Year-in-Review
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Perspectives

CRISPR in Agriculture: 2022 in Review
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Perspectives

Crops, Climate & CRISPR Regulations in Southeast Asia
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Press Releases

Like the Borg of Star Trek, These ‘Aliens’ Assimilate DNA from Other Microbes
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Press Releases

CRISPR-Based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest
Press Releases, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Supercharging Plants and Soils to Remove Carbon from the Atmosphere
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Meet an IGI Scientist

Meet an IGI Scientist: Imtiyaz Khanday
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Press Releases

IGI Partners with African Plant Breeding Academy for New CRISPR Course
Jack Kim and Jill Banfield in the rice field with a Picarro gas chamber to measure methane emissions
Press Releases

Inside Genomics: Microbes Meet Climate Change
Researchers at work at CGIAR’s International Institute of Tropical Agriculture campus in Ibadan, Nigeria (Chris de Bode/CGIAR)
Press Releases, IGI News

Harnessing the Power of CRISPR to Reduce Poverty and Malnutrition