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Channa Prakash
@agbioworld.bsky.social
Professor, biotech guru. I am curious about science, farming, food security, innovation, plants, history. @AAAS Fellow
It’s not just us, our primate relatives love alcohol, ingest much everyday! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/liquid-...
Liquid lunch? Wild chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks daily
A survey of the alcohol content of fruits eaten regularly by African chimps shows that their diet could deliver 14 grams of ethanol a day. Given their body size, that's nearly two cocktails' worth.
universityofcalifornia.edu
Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December! cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
World’s first gene-edited horses are being turbocharged with CRISPR, faster sprinting for polo, in Argentina www.reuters.com/world/americ...
World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo
Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.
reuters.com
“It gives me great pride that moving forward, after I’m long gone, there’s going to be a building that is sitting here that is going to help the future generations of students and scientists here, and that that’s how things move forward,” www.waka.com/2025/08/25/t...
Tuskegee University breaks ground for new Center for Genomics and Health Disparity Research - WAKA 8
A new research center is coming to Tuskegee University.
waka.com
The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...
Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying
n the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the successes of the Green Revolution
geneticliteracyproject.org
Not directly related, but Joe Hanson has a new video. Am I wrong in thinking this contains unsubstantiated fear mongering? youtu.be/H8c1ObYSlQI?...
Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
YouTube video by Be Smart
youtu.be
Fighting back against the Trump administration means scientists start to look more like activists www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap
Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.
theatlantic.com
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries
Science is hard. You gotta prove it, test it, and reproduce the results. Pseudoscience is easy. You make it up, add some fear, and watch ignorant people spread it.
The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment crises. It’s a trend federal data and other sources show began even before Trump returned to the White House. hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...
A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
Political attacks and other problems appear to be driving an exodus of Ph.D.s and faculty from higher education, threatening a diminished experience for undergraduates.
hechingerreport.org
The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
Lysenko’s pseudoscientific ideas led to policies in the Soviet Union that did kill millions in the past. Bhattacharya tried and failed to do that with the Great Barrington Declaration, but now, as NIH director he is on track to succeed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2
JosephMaina | Africa's quiet biotech revolution
Africa's quiet biotech revolution
scienceforsustainableagriculture.com
How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...
How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut
nytimes.com
My Interview - 'Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications....has been a leading biotech and genetics researcher, educator, and social media personality. He has spent time with Pope Francis, was friends with Dr. Borlaug .. www.metaldoglabs.ai/dr-channa-pr...
Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications
On Ag BioTech, communications, learning from tradition, and learning mindsets
metaldoglabs.ai
Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.
The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia
Genome edited wheat, which could be beneficial to health thanks to increased fiber content, approved for field trials. Meanwhile, me waiting for genome editing to be allowed in EU/Switzerland:
Waiting Patient GIF
ALT: Waiting Patient GIF
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Channa Prakash@agbioworld.bsky.social · last yr.A high-fiber wheat developed at Chile gets a regulatory nod to advance to field trials. This is the first CRISPR-edited wheat to receive such regulatory approval in the Americas! @DanielNorero neocroptech.com/en/regulator...
A high-fiber wheat developed at Chile gets a regulatory nod to advance to field trials. This is the first CRISPR-edited wheat to receive such regulatory approval in the Americas! @DanielNorero neocroptech.com/en/regulator...
Regulatory milestone: Neocrop obtains “green light” for the first CRISPR-edited wheat in the Americas – Neocrop Technologies
neocroptech.com
On Agriculture and American Progress: Talk with Mackenzie Burnett, CEO and co-founder of @Ambrook, - build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses @rpethe www.metaldoglabs.ai/mackenzie-bu...
Mackenzie Burnett: On Agriculture and American Progress
Mackenzie Burnett is a patriot. She is the CEO and co-founder of Ambrook, whose mission is to build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses. She believes in America...
metaldoglabs.ai
The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...
Potatoes today might have evolved with help from an early tomato, according to a new paper published in the journal Cell www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
The Potato May Have Evolved From a Tomato Ancestor Nine Million Years Ago, Genetic Study Suggests
A genome analysis indicates wild tomatoes and a potato-like plant called Etuberosum hybridized to create the modern potato
smithsonianmag.com