Recombinant Microbes
To date, the use of recombinant microbes in food production and processing has been limited to recombinant microbial enzymes and a...
Read MoreTransgenic Plants
Breeding is still an effective mechanism for improvement and is frequently used to increase such traits as yield and disease resistance, as...
Read MoreGene Cloning
The major breakthrough in the development of recombinant DNA technology was the ability to clone genes. This refers to the process of...
Read More‘Golden rice’ and its future
Soon after the ‘Starlink’ scandal, Swiss biotechnologists announced the development of ‘golden rice’, a variety of rice that has...
Read MoreGene Therapy
In 1990, researchers first attempted to combat genetic defects by the transfer of human genes. When a hereditary disorder is the result of...
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