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Corn is one of the main cultivated crops worldwide. Due to centuries of selected breeding, the corncobs and their yield have been getting bigger and bigger.

Many people are allergic to strawberries and tomatoes, especially if they also suffer from birch pollen allergy.

Particulate matter endangers not only human health, but also plants, as researchers in Bonn have shown.

Mosa Meat created the first cultured hamburger in 2013. After a successful series A financing round, the spin off company from Maastricht University now prepares to bring the burger to market.

The wool beetle Lagria villosa lives on various economically important crops. The beetles are particularly common on soybeans (pictured) and cause great damage.

In Synthetic Biology, researchers assemble systems with completely new properties from biological modules.

The long-awaited ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union states that plants bred via the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas are to be regulated according to the strict directive for genetically modified organisms.

Ready-to-eat foods like slices of sausage or cheese can contain bacteria such as salmonella.

The brown lignin is a waste product of the paper industry. Muhannad Al Aiti, a Dresden-based researcher, is investigating how best to use lignin for the prodcution of sustainable, bio-based carbon fibres.

It is virtually impossible to identify inferior breast implants. However, this could soon change.

Be it leaf beetles or geckos: Materials researchers have always been fascinated by the talent for finding hold even upside down on smooth and steep surfaces.

The six leading European universities in the field of the bioeconomy are planning to join forces and establish a pan-European university for the bioeconomy.

A diverse nature: Young fallow fields with cornflowers and poppies, corn wheel, field foxtail grass and barley.

The carbon fiber reinforcement gives the granite plate an extremely high strength, enabling completely new, efficient constructions.

The number of different rice varieties is enormous. There are 120,000 varieties of the cultivated rice variant Oryza sativa alone.

More vegetables and fruit instead of animal products: according to a new report by the InterAcademy Partnership, producing fewer animal-based products would significantly improve the agricultural CO2 balance and thus limit climate change.

Even five years after its inception, the dif aims to find new and sustainable solutions to urgent global problems.