Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. The Department of Biotechnology notified the guidelines for the safety assessment of genome-edited plants.
A Gopalakrishnan, Director of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has won the VASVIK (Vividhalaxi Industrial Refinement Development Centre) Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Agricultural Science and Technology.
A senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, Cynthia Rosenzweig has received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation.