Genome editing has been used to destroy a virus that lurks inside many of the bananas grown in Africa. Other teams are trying to use it to make the Cavendish bananas sold in supermarkets worldwide resistant to a disease that threatens to make it impossible to grow this variety commercially in future.

The world’s bees face a major threat from deformed wing virus, a pathogen transmitted by the parasitic varroa mite.

Both ToBRFV and the coronavirus are currently spreading through our sector like wildfire, so if we are to keep both people and plants healthy, we have to change the way we work

Long before COVID-19 became a household word—in 1946, to be precise—veterinary researchers at Purdue University reported that something invading the guts of young pigs was causing diarrhea, vomiting, and weight loss, ultimately killing most of them.