Simon Kremer - March 25, 2025

HutanBio: algae is the fuel of the future

Algae converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into flammable hydrocarbons, offering a like-for-like ...

Nick Sutcliffe - March 4, 2024

Cellular Agriculture – Innovating through the Challenges

The last year (2023) has seen a difficult environment for Cellular Agriculture (Cell Ag) companies ...

Amelia Jones - February 13, 2024

Blooming bright! Bioluminescent plant set to brighten up flower beds across the US

The green fingered among us take great pride in our blossoming gardens and house plants; those, ...

Sarah Harvey - February 8, 2024

European Parliament votes to endorse plants bred using New Genomic Techniques

7 February 2024 marked a milestone for plant science as the European Parliament (EP) voted to ...

Sarah Harvey - January 31, 2024

Hydrogels in sustainable agriculture

As we move into 2024, the agricultural sector is being driven by the urgent need to address global ...

Sarah Harvey - September 21, 2023

UK regulators decide preferred approach to precision bred crops

Yesterday (Wednesday 20 September 2023), the Food Standards Agency board decided on their preferred ...

Isobel Fisher - June 22, 2023

One giant leap for plant-kind: engineering plants for Mars

If humans are going to live on Mars one day, we need to work out how to grow plants there. Plants ...

Matthew Barton - March 3, 2023

Conservation innovation – working towards a world for both humans and wildlife

With a rapidly growing human global population, predicted to reach 10 billion by 2057, our impact ...

Andrew Pitts - August 10, 2021

A new referral to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal is plausible

Despite not having any express legislative basis in the European Patent Convention, plausibility ...

Fay Allen - June 29, 2021

The technologies helping shape the future of food

In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Fay Allen and Sarah Harvey discuss the technologies helping shape ...

Simon Kremer - March 3, 2021

Controlled environment agriculture - 5 things to watch

Simon Kremer attended the Agri-TechE “Controlled Environment Agriculture – The Industry is Growing ...

Simon Kremer - January 7, 2021

Save our staples: Securing the future of food

Rising global temperatures and rising populations threaten farmers’ ability to grow the crops we ...

Nick Sutcliffe - September 11, 2020

Pepper decision means conventionally bred plants and animals get a chilli reception at the EPO

Dr Ben Tolley and Dr Nick Sutcliffe of the Life Sciences team look at the extensive ramifications ...

Simon Kremer - August 28, 2020

Growing Underground: In the pink

Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies finds out why one of our best models for the future of food ...

Tom Furnival - July 28, 2020

A brighter future for unconventional agriculture?

At the cost of more than one sad-looking hanging basket, I have come to understand that plants ...

Nick Sutcliffe - May 19, 2020

G3/19 The Enlarged Board of Appeal has its cake and eats it

On 14 May 2020, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EBA) released their ...

Thomas Driver - May 14, 2020

BREAKING: G3/19 – an end to the plant patentability saga?

On 14 May 2020, the Enlarged Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office released their decision ...

Adam Gregory - January 30, 2020

Farming the great indoors

When you think of a farm, what comes to mind? Rolling fields of green new growth, and carpets of ...

Thomas Driver - February 6, 2019

Plant related inventions: clarity at last?

As we reported previously, EPO Technical Board of Appeal 3304 recently ruled that a controversial ...

Frances Salisbury - December 10, 2018

Plant related inventions: the saga continues

We may be approaching the end of the year, but the saga of patents for plant related inventions at ...