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Recycling Nutrients for More Sustainable Agriculture and Animal Production
When it comes to sustainability in agriculture, there’s more to chicken waste than you might think. We recently sat down with Michael Lynch, CEO of Chonex, a nutrient recycling company focused on poultry manure, to talk about...
Induction Food Systems: Industrial Heating That’s Precise, Efficient and On-Demand
Induction Food Systems helps food and beverage manufacturers improve efficiency and expand production with on-demand precision heating equipment. The company has harnessed electromagnetic energy to create the first scalable, precise, and efficient...
Nutritious, Natural Sugars: A Conversation with Bonumose Founder Ed Rogers
iSelect managing director Mark McCall recently participated in a panel discussion at the Family Office Impact Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Hosted by Gitterman Wealth Management, Family Office Insights and 5th Element...
How Digital Product Development is Reshaping the Food We Eat
iSelect hosts a Deep Dive webinar on a novel innovation topic on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 9 a.m. central. Our most recent session focused on how many food producers are now using...
AgroSpheres: A New Approach to Pesticide Application that is Controlled, Targeted and Optimized
AgroSpheres is an agriculture technology startup in Virginia that is revolutionizing crop protection through environmentally friendly delivery platforms.
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What’s the Future of Nutrition? Addiction
The modern world has a serious problem with sugar.
The average American consumes more than 129 pounds of the stuff each year, according to the USDA, more than double what we ate two generations ago. And,...
It’s 2019, Where’s the Exit?
Once your big idea has come to life as a successful start-up, what’s next?
How do you achieve a steady ascent that makes your small company and your investors happy?
Getting the exit right can mean everything...
How The Bee Corp is Empowering Growers and Beekeepers
CEO of agtech company The Bee Corp, Ellie Symes, is serious about bees. Her technology takes the uncertainty out of pollination, allowing growers to make time-sensitive decisions sooner and eliminating...
You Are What You Think: How New Brain Care Advances Are Increasingly Person-Centered
It’s an exciting time in the field of brain science.
Researchers are working on new speech analysis tools for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
New studies have shown that retina scans can be used to detect...
4 Trends We’re Watching in Healthcare in 2019
Healthcare is massive economic burden in this country. According to the National Health Expenditure Accounts, the federal agency that has tracked healthcare spending in the U.S. since the 1960s, it now totals roughly $3.5 trillion per year,...
2 Companies That Are Working to Cure Cancer Right Now
In 2018, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States and 609,640 people died as a result of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. These numbers are staggering.
The challenge...
Why Venture? Why Now?
The world of venture capital is growing fast. In fact, 2018 was the biggest year for venture capital investments on record, with firms spreading approximately $131 billion across 8,949 deals, according to data published by PitchBook and...
How Shifting Spending to Healthy Foods Could Prevent Chronic Illness
The burden of chronic health issues is massive: 90% of the nation’s $3.3 trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic and mental illness, according to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention...
Travis Potter: Farming to Make Your Price
Travis Potter farms to make a price and, in turn, make profit in unusual ways. From his organic Tractor Soda to growing avocados in the Dakotas, Travis finds profitability in places that most farmers wouldn't think to...
Dr. Bruce German: Making Food Functional
Could changing your diet prep your brain for learning something new like playing the violin? Research by Dr. Bruce German at the University of California, Davis indicates that future is not as far-fetched (or far off) as...
Solving the Public Health Crisis by Making Healthy Nutrition as Addictive as Sugar
The modern world has a serious problem with sugar.
The average American consumes more than 129 pounds of the stuff each year, according to the USDA, more than...
We’re Celebrating Innovators on This International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day has been on the calendar every year since the early 20th century, a day to celebrate the movement for women’s rights and reflect on the ongoing push for gender equality around the world. It...
Automating the Harvest, One Strawberry at a Time
First, let’s clear one thing up: the strawberry is not, in fact, a berry.
It’s what botanists call an “aggregate accessory fruit,” meaning that the flesh of the fruit is derived from the receptacle that holds the...
This Rare Disease Day, Let’s Do More
There are some 7,000 known rare diseases in the world today and they affect an estimated 25-30 million people in the United States alone.
This day, celebrated every year on February 28th, holds...
What the Latest Round of Food Contamination Recalls Say About Ag Innovation
It’s happened again. Last month, the United States Department of Agriculture announced a nationwide recall of more than 12 million pounds of raw beef due to new concerns over possible salmonella contamination.
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Engineering Proteins for Use in … Everything
Proteins are an essential part of life, present in just about every living thing on Earth. But they aren’t perfect. As natural things, they have their limitations. They are limited in terms of what they can do....
