Seafood boils are a southern summer tradition. Clam chowders are a northern winter tradition. And lobster rolls are year-round deliciousness.  Seafood is a staple of the American diet, however, due to the exponential increase in ocean plastic pollution, our underwater food is threatened, and…

There is quite a bit to celebrate at the BIO IMPACT Digital | Ag & Environment Conference this September. In addition to a reimagined event, this year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rosalind Franklin’s birth and the legacy of George Washington Carver. Each year, the George Washington…

It has been 25 years since GMO crops first came on the market. Since then, GMOs have not just transformed agriculture by providing a valuable tool for farmers, but they have also helped the environment, consumers, and communities around the world. GMOs are an important tool in the fight against…

In 2018, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study confirmed that race is the most important factor in how likely it is for someone to live in a more polluted environment, more so than socioeconomic status.  This is a commonly known fact drawn from a number of studies showing the same…

The development of safe and effective vaccines is more important than ever. As we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases can appear suddenly and spread quickly. As the biotech industry races to develop an effective vaccine for COVID-19, there has been an unprecedented…

All across the country small, emerging biotechnology companies are working to solve some of the most important and complex scientific challenges facing the world today. These innovators are racing to develop the medicines and vaccines that will help end the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure we are…

Have you seen the headlines lately? Between the milestone and record-setting three million cases of coronavirus in the United States, the new strain of swine flu “with human pandemic potential,” and the sudden resurgence of the bubonic plague in China, nothing screams, “Time to prioritize zoonotic…

In a National Academies webinar, former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said, we as a nation have to consider that resiliency is just as important as efficiency. He was talking about the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic nearly broke the links in our food supply chain that were already…

As Congressional Democrats promote their climate crisis action plan, BIO is pointing to the role of biotech innovation in achieving the goals of cleaner air, healthier soils, improved human health, and a strengthened bioeconomy. The 547-page report released June 30 by the House Select Committee on…

Vaccines, from the Latin word vacca which means cow. Yes, cow! While many people know that the first-ever vaccine was for smallpox, a lot of people don’t know about the role cows had in developing that vaccine. A recent episode of NPR’s Planet Money podcast dug a little deeper into this history…