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The Hill: This Thanksgiving highlights the need for agriculture innovation

This Thanksgiving, even as many people prepare to spend a day with family and friends reflecting on our blessings over a bountiful table, avoiding thoughts of our global food system’s…

Financial Times: Mood in Europe shifts on gene-edited crops

Inari, a US agritech company set up in 2016, has been working on gene editing to increase yields on wheat, corn and soyabeans as well as reducing the necessary water…

Bloomberg: Agtech Startup Inari Nabs New Funding at $1.5 Billion Valuation

Seed technology startup Inari has reached $1.5 billion valuation after raising $124 million in fresh financing. Company makes seeds to withstand climate-change impacts. Gene-edited corn, soy seeds use less land,…

Purdue Research Foundation: Spotlight on Inari Agriculture

Inari is the SEEDesign™ company, combining artificial intelligence-powered predictive design and multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of seed. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company opened its second…

NYT: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life

The same technology that allows medical researchers to tinker with human cells is letting agricultural scientists alter crop genes. When the first wave of CRISPR studies came out, Catherine Feuillet,…

Genetic Engineering News: Can CRISPR Feed the World?

Now in its second decade, CRISPR genome editing technology is being used to revolutionize agriculture—just in time to help us adapt to climate change. A decade has passed since the…

Fast Company: 3 Steps to Identify the Most Impactful Companies to Invest In

Every year brings another wave of challenging climate news, but 2022 seems to be off to a particularly rocky start. From the IPCC Climate Reports to the crisis in Ukraine…

AgFunder News: Charting the Course to a Resilient Food System with Dynamic System Modeling

Earth Day 2022’s theme — ‘invest in our planet’ — stands as a stark reminder that our economic security is entirely dependent on the health of our natural world. Earth…

Forbes: Patents Aim to Boost Corn and Soy Performance

Food is so complicated – making it, growing it, choosing what to eat of it. It’s tempting to say this is relatively recent, but if you could travel back in time…

Farm Progress: Major Plant Breeding Investments Continue

Inari, based in Cambridge, Mass., is all about applying powerful gene-editing tools to make desired changes in plants and unlock unprecedented yield potential, spokespersons say. Recently, the company announced a…