Spanish startup InsectBiotech has secured €7.2 million ($8.3 million) in funding to construct a new production facility in Andalusia that will use black soldier fly larvae to convert agricultural byproducts from the olive oil industry into protein, oil, and fertiliser.

2025 年，中国新增登记 15 个新农药有效成分，涉及 29 个新农药产品，其中化学农药 6 个，生物农药 23 个1 。生物农药占新农药产品总数的 79.3%，微生物农药占比高达72.4%。在新登记品种中，生物农药已从昔日的″少数派″跃升为如今的″主力军″。这一数据变化，折射出中国植保市场正在经历的深刻变革。

Why it matters: The all-oral combination is designed to block two mechanisms that allow estrogen receptor-positive tumors to escape endocrine therapy. It also gives rupitasertib a new clinical route after an earlier combination plan failed to begin on schedule.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Maryland in College Park $17.3 million to launch a test bed for users from across the U.S. to program automated workflows for experiments in biomanufacturing.

August 2026, Manhattan: Kansas and Oklahoma canola growers will have three opportunities in early August to learn how th…

Why it matters: The deal allows AstraZeneca to retain shared rights to a next-generation estrogen receptor therapy while placing early trial work with an AI-focused developer. It also gives AstraZeneca another approach to ER degradation alongside Etcamah (camizestrant), its oral selective estrogen receptor degrader recently approved in the EU for certain patients with advanced ER-positive breast cancer and emerging ESR1 mutations.

Israeli cultivated meat company Aleph Farms has received regulatory clearance to sell its thin-cut beef steaks in Singapore, with plans to introduce the product to the market in the first half of 2027.

August 2026, UK: Professor Maria Nijnik, a senior researcher from The James Hutton Institute, Scotland’s leading interdi…

世界农化网中文网报道：近日，拜耳澳大利亚公司确认，已向澳大利亚农药与兽药管理局（APVMA）正式提交了新型除草剂活性成分icafolin-methyl的登记批准申请。若审批顺利，该产品有望于2028年在澳上市。此举标志着拜耳全球除草剂研发管线中一个重要里程碑的达成，也反映出公司在面对日益严峻的抗性杂草挑战时，持续以创新投入支持澳大利亚种植者的长期承诺。