Farmers looking to gain the upper hand over corn rootworm (CRW) pests have new tools to deploy in the field, thanks to Ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) technology. RNAi works in CRW as it ...

This month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the first plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) of its kind based on RNA interference (RNAi) technology, engineered to target western ...

Proving that prokaryotes possess an adaptive 'immune' response that is analogous to eukaryotic RNAi will be a long process. This work gives us a tantalizing glimpse of what lies ahead.