Biotech Updates

After more than 15 years, Pinkglow™ Pineapple, the pink pineapple from Fresh Del Monte is now commercially available. A product of bioengineering, Pinkglow™ Pineapples contain lycopene, a natural pigment that gives some produce its red color (e.g. tomatoes, watermelon), which makes this pineapple pink.

New Genome Editing Tool Designed to Make Big DNA Edits

A new tool for cutting large chunks of DNA out of a cell's genome has been developed by experts from the University of California, San Francisco. The new system, dubbed as CRISPR-Cas3, is reported in Nature Methods.

COVID-19 Virus Can Survive 28 Days on Surfaces

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization researchers studied the survival rates of infectious SARS-CoV-2 and found that the virus can survive 28 days on surfaces. The results are published in Virology Journal.