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Apr 02, 2019

Ag-Bio Startup Amfora Licenses CRISPR IP From Corteva, Broad Institute

The San Francisco-based startup, which closed a $5 million Series A round in 2017, aims to develop nutritionally enhanced food and feed crops.

Oct 18, 2017

Broad, DuPont Pioneer Partner to Provide Non-Exclusive Licenses to CRISPR IP

The collaborators will grant the licenses to any entities wanting to use the technology for commercial agricultural research and product development.

Oct 13, 2017

Agricultural Editing

Agricultural companies are thinking about how to get consumers comfortable with gene-edited crops, the Wall Street Journal says.

Jun 27, 2017

DuPont Pioneer Licenses CRISPR Tech From ERS Genomics

DuPont Pioneer has acquired the exclusive rights to ERS Genomics' portfolio of CRISPR-Cas genome-editing technologies for all plant and agricultural applications.

Dec 14, 2016

Hygiena Acquires DuPont Global Food Safety Diagnostics Business

The company said its acquisition of DuPont Diagnostics will allow it to provide a broader array of food safety diagnostics services to its customers.

Sep 29, 2016

DuPont Inks CRISPR/Cas9 Deal With International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

DuPont Pioneer has entered into a collaboration to apply CRISPR genome editing to the development of crop varieties for farmers in developing countries.

Sep 09, 2016

CRISPR Corn

DuPont Pioneer researchers used a CRISPR genome editing approach to develop corn that appears to be more drought tolerant.

Jul 13, 2016

Thermo Fisher, DuPont Extend Food Safety Testing Distribution Pact for Western Europe

The firms also renewed distribution agreements for DuPont's BAX System Q7 food safety testing platform in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Nov 20, 2015

Scientists Develop Assay for Characterizing Editing-Related Features of Novel CRISPR/Cas9 Systems

The in vitro assay enabled the scientists to take an uncharacterized Cas9 variant from Brevibacillus laterosporus and edit maize cells with it.

Oct 09, 2015

CRISPR Is What's for Dinner

DuPont teams with genome editing firm Caribou Biosciences for agricultural applications of the technology.

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The Scan

With an Editing Goal in Mind

Russian CRISPR researcher moves along with plans to ultimately alter the genes of embryos of deaf couples, though awaits regulatory approval, Nature News reports.

Up And At 'Em

University of California, San Francisco, researchers have uncovered a gene mutations that appears to make a father-son duo more efficient sleepers.

Coverage Begins

NPR reports a large health insurer has begun to cover some pharmacogenetic tests for psychiatric drugs.

PLOS Papers Examine Non-Syndromic Orofacial Cleft Subtypes, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, More

In PLOS this week: genome-wide association study of non-syndromic orofacial cleft subtypes, epigenetic and transcriptomic analysis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, and more.

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