Pizza, Cookies and Science

At AgBiome we continue the grand tradition of participating in science seminars. It takes us back to our student days when we could stretch our grocery budget farther if we attended seminars with free pizza and cookies.[..]

The 2012 discovery that the naturally occurring CRISPR-associated sequence Cas9 could be programmed to create double-strand breaks at specific sites in a genome has led to one of the most rapidly growing bodies of biological research in history.[..]

The mathematical character π (Pi) is used to calculate the area of a circle, which has many practical applications in that geometry class you took ages ago and even in the real world. The value of π has been known for almost 4000 years! The first[..]

AgBiome named to THRIVE Top 50 for the Second Straight Year San Francisco, March 13, 2019 – AgBiome, a private company harnessing the plant microbiome for novel agricultural pest solutions, is honored to announce that the company has been named to[..]

 Research Triangle Park, NC (March 7, 2019) -- Today, AgBiome Innovations™, the commercial arm of AgBiome™, introduced Lektivar™ 40SC, a novel fungicide (fluazinam) that provides superior control of foliar and soil-borne diseases to include white[..]

Our company operates on a so-called self-managed system.  Our employees enthusiastically embrace it, and communicate expansively about it.  But what is self management? Does it just mean that you don’t have a line supervisor?  Does it mean you can[..]

Love is all about what happens in the brain, and not your heart. However, hormones associated with love can also affect other parts of the body too (ask your parents). Romantic love can be broken down into three categories and the production of[..]

Many of you may be wondering, “What is formulations and what happens in a formulations lab?” And no, formulation scientists do not spend their days mixing formula for infants, although our lab might smell better if they did. Formulations is the[..]

According to research on the science of giving, charitable acts done at and through work increase employee job satisfaction, work performance, and personal happiness. It’s not surprising that doing good, feels good, which is one of the many reasons[..]

If you are a fan of strawberries then you have probably experienced opening a recently purchased container only to find that several berries have burst into a plume of velvety gray mold. Unfortunately, your berries have fallen prey to gray mold[..]