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Channa Prakash

@agbioworld.bsky.social
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Professor, biotech guru. I am curious about science, farming, food security, innovation, plants, history. @AAAS Fellow

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David L. Ortega @dlortega.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Thank you @agbioworld.bsky.social! I’m honored and deeply humbled.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It’s not just us, our primate relatives love alcohol, ingest much everyday! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/liquid-...
universityofcalifornia.edu
Liquid lunch? Wild chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks daily
A survey of the alcohol content of fruits eaten regularly by African chimps shows that their diet could deliver 14 grams of ethanol a day. Given their body size, that's nearly two cocktails' worth.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December! cast-science.org/2025-bcca/
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
How’s your mitochondria doing today?
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
World’s first gene-edited horses are being turbocharged with CRISPR, faster sprinting for polo, in Argentina www.reuters.com/world/americ...
reuters.com
World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo
Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“It gives me great pride that moving forward, after I’m long gone, there’s going to be a building that is sitting here that is going to help the future generations of students and scientists here, and that that’s how things move forward,” www.waka.com/2025/08/25/t...
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Tuskegee University breaks ground for new Center for Genomics and Health Disparity Research - WAKA 8
A new research center is coming to Tuskegee University.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...
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Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying
n the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the successes of the Green Revolution
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Ricardo @lucanvalerius.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Not directly related, but Joe Hanson has a new video. Am I wrong in thinking this contains unsubstantiated fear mongering? youtu.be/H8c1ObYSlQI?...
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Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
YouTube video by Be Smart
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Fighting back against the Trump administration means scientists start to look more like activists www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap
Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Law students should not interview with these firms.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
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JewInACanoe.bsky.social 🎗️ @jewinacanoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries
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CHOPPER - Woke Boomer @unclechopperrip.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Science is hard. You gotta prove it, test it, and reproduce the results. Pseudoscience is easy. You make it up, add some fear, and watch ignorant people spread it.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment crises. It’s a trend federal data and other sources show began even before Trump returned to the White House. hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...
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A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
Political attacks and other problems appear to be driving an exodus of Ph.D.s and faculty from higher education, threatening a diminished experience for undergraduates.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Lysenko’s pseudoscientific ideas led to policies in the Soviet Union that did kill millions in the past. Bhattacharya tried and failed to do that with the Great Barrington Declaration, but now, as NIH director he is on track to succeed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko
Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2
scienceforsustainableagriculture.com
JosephMaina | Africa's quiet biotech revolution
Africa's quiet biotech revolution
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...
nytimes.com
How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
My Interview - 'Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications....has been a leading biotech and genetics researcher, educator, and social media personality. He has spent time with Pope Francis, was friends with Dr. Borlaug .. www.metaldoglabs.ai/dr-channa-pr...
metaldoglabs.ai
Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications
On Ag BioTech, communications, learning from tradition, and learning mindsets
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia
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Etienne Bucher 🌾🧬🇪🇺 @plantepigenetics.ch · 12/08/2025
Genome edited wheat, which could be beneficial to health thanks to increased fiber content, approved for field trials. Meanwhile, me waiting for genome editing to be allowed in EU/Switzerland:
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Smart insect pretending to be a stick!
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A high-fiber wheat developed at Chile gets a regulatory nod to advance to field trials. This is the first CRISPR-edited wheat to receive such regulatory approval in the Americas! @DanielNorero‬⁩ neocroptech.com/en/regulator...
neocroptech.com
Regulatory milestone: Neocrop obtains “green light” for the first CRISPR-edited wheat in the Americas – Neocrop Technologies
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On Agriculture and American Progress: Talk with Mackenzie Burnett, CEO and co-founder of @Ambrook, - build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses @rpethe www.metaldoglabs.ai/mackenzie-bu...
metaldoglabs.ai
Mackenzie Burnett: On Agriculture and American Progress
Mackenzie Burnett is a patriot.  She is the CEO and co-founder of Ambrook, whose mission is to build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses. She believes in America...
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Science at the service of humanity. s/
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Potatoes today might have evolved with help from an early tomato, according to a new paper published in the journal Cell www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
smithsonianmag.com
The Potato May Have Evolved From a Tomato Ancestor Nine Million Years Ago, Genetic Study Suggests
A genome analysis indicates wild tomatoes and a potato-like plant called Etuberosum hybridized to create the modern potato
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My Facebook page AgBioWorld with 110k followers has been hacked or taken down by FB! Another called The Story has changed its name to Agbioworld. See www.facebook.com/forestislandy Frustratingly FB is not responding to my complaints. Can someone help me on how I can have this page restored?
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A 7-year feeding study with insect-resistant & herbicide-tolerant GM maize was conducted on monkeys. No statistically significant differences were observed in the majority of parameters between the GM-fed and control (non-GM and normal diet) groups. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40705638/
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Ray Shillito @rayshl.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Same old. 30 years of safe use.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A 7-year feeding study with insect-resistant & herbicide-tolerant GM maize was conducted on monkeys. No statistically significant differences were observed in the majority of parameters between the GM-fed and control (non-GM and normal diet) groups. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40705638/
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Slapass McClanahan @slapassmcclanahan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Here’s your swamp, MAGA, you blockheads. Nice pedophile savior you’ve got there. Keep flying those baby rapist flags. Keep rocking those baby rapist bumper stickers. Deplorable hillbilly dumbfuckers. You’ve destroyed America with your bottomless idiocy.
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Keith Lien @ledman54.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Strangely enough half of Americans actually believe they are living in the greatest country in the world? Its got the education system and propaganda media like FOX
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Esmeralda @esmerpg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your future www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...
americanprogress.org
Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities
American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
How a wild peanut strain help scientists develop a better variety, an awesome PlantBreeding story in ⁦‪@nytimes‬⁩! Congratulations ⁦‪@BotanyBert‬⁩. Remove the paywall at archive.is/2025.07.24-1... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...
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How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut
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sugar8.bsky.social @sugar8.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 23/07/2025
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A new med school by Walmart heiress has emphasis on whole health, which a touch of art & humanities! time.com/7303692/alic...
time.com
The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Bombardier beetle sprays hot, toxic chemical as a defense against predators that can reach temperatures of boiling water
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Must be for growing tomatoes ;)
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
😞 Poachers have killed two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya, leaving just one in the world. The 2 giraffes to be killed were a mother and her seven-month-old calf. The white appearance of the giraffe is due to leucism, a genetic condition www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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Channa Prakash @agbioworld.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Cancer is now less deadly than you think, thanks to science! The world is making impressive progress averting cancer. And there are more improvements to come www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thank you Stephen Colbert for your willingness to speak truth to power. Staying far from timid. And never bending the knee to a wannabe king.
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