Month: March 2018

Pakistan can rise hybrid rice about 2 million tons.

  • March 28, 2018
On 27th March 2018 MR. Shahzad Ali Malik the president of the Seed Association of Pakistan and ex-president of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan said high-yielding hybrid rice is going to cross 50% of the total area planted with paddy in the next three years from the current range of 25% to 30%, which […]
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Pakistani University organized a conference to learn from Chinese experience on tissue culture techniques

  • March 26, 2018
On 24 March 2018 Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (Multan) organized the conference here for Pakistani scientist to learn from Chinese experience to intensify fruits and vegetable yield via grafting of vegetable plants. Chinese experts Prof. Bie Zhi long, Prof.Wen Wu Guo and Prof. Shuangzia Jin presented their work related to modern tissue culture […]
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NASA idea to grow plants quickly back on Earth

  • March 22, 2018
The NASA research incriminated using the continuous light on wheat which provokes early procreation in the plants. Lee Hickey, Senior Research Fellow at University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia said that“By using speed breeding techniques in specially modified glasshouses we can sprout six generations of wheat, chickpea and barley plants, and four generations of canola […]
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CRISPR genetic editing focus on RNA

  • March 21, 2018
SALK Institute for biological study, scientists (USA) has created a new tool that targets not DNA, but RNA. They used it to correct a protein imbalance in cells from a dementia patient and reinstate them to healthy levels. The new Salk tool, called CasRx, opens up and the huge potential of RNA and proteins towards […]
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New method to improve crops

  • March 21, 2018
A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new way to breed plants with better traits. By introducing a human protein into the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers found that they could particular activate silenced genes already available within the plant. Using this method to enlarge variety among plant populations could serve […]
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Skin Swap With Genetically-Modified Grafts

  • March 14, 2018
Doctors have replaced the majority of a patient’s damaged skin using genetically-modified grafts. In 2015; a seven-year-old boy was admitted to a German hospital with lesions and blisters across nearly his entire body. He suffered from a unrivaled genetic condition called junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) that prevents the epidermis, the outermost layer of our skin, […]
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Human Embryo Gets CRISPR Treatment

  • March 14, 2018
In just a few short years, the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has infiltrated biology labs around the world. This summer, scientists working in a U.S. lab announced they’d used CRISPR to modify viable human embryos, which were kept alive just a few days. The research is a first in the United States, though scientists in China […]
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Reducing Beta-secretase Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease in facsimile

  • March 5, 2018
Employing a complex series of mouse models, a team of neurological disease researchers showed that reducing the level of the enzyme beta-secretase (BACE1) could reverse the clinical indication of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).An important element in the disease process in AD is the accretion of amyloid beta (Abeta) protein. To form Abeta, amyloid precursor protein (APP) […]
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Corn hybrid seeds: Pakistan set to become self-sustaining

  • March 5, 2018
In what would be a major boost to the food security of the country, Pakistan is poised to become self-sufficient in the production of corn hybrid seeds. Local seed companies have exceeded foreign competitors in research and development, producing highest-yielding corn varieties, claimed a Pakistan official. Local scientists of national companies associated with the Seed […]
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China’s First GM Rice Gets U.S. FDA assent

  • March 5, 2018
A genetically modified (GM) rice product developed by a group of Chinese scientists has acquired the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, the first such Chinese product allowed to enter the US market. However, neither China nor the US has approved mass cultivation of the rice amid low acceptance from the Chinese public for […]
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