University of California, Riverside, plant biologist Katie Dehesh explains the importance of agricultural research.

Overcooked potatoes and burnt toast contain acrylamide, a potential carcinogen that researchers have struggled to reliably link to human cancers.

Researchers enhance the photosynthetic yield of tobacco plants with genetic engineering.

Sorting the Beef from the Bull, Cheats and Deceits, A Sea of Glass, and Following the Wild Bees

US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Margaret Hamburg is stepping down after six years on the job.

A review of The Scientist’s 2014 special issues, highlighting trending areas of research across the life sciences

As rich sources of genetic diversity, the progenitors and kin of today’s food crops hold great promise for improving production in agriculture’s challenging future.

Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?

New technologies will make it easier to manipulate animal genomes, but food products from genetically engineered animals face a long road to market.

See how a ruinous fungus that attacks wheat wreaks its damage.

While national food supplies have diversified during the last 50 years, the global crop selection has homogenized, new analysis shows.

The world’s first burger grown in a petri dish was cooked and served up in a public taste test.

Because of their high protein and fat content and their reproductive efficiency, insects hold great promise for thwarting an impending global food crisis.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

The European Food Safety Authority is unconvinced by a study linking genetically modified crops to cancer and early death.

Plant research remains grossly underfunded, despite the demand for increased crop production to support a growing population.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2012 issue of The Scientist.

Using surface plasmon resonance to improve antibody detection and characterization: four case studies