With at least a million children weakened by vitamin-A deficiency every year and an additional 350,000 going blind, the possibility that genetically engineered rice may soon be widely available in ...

The creativity that went in inventing McDonald’s miracle flavored rice is so beyond my little human brain that I’d have to be high as a kite to understand the magic. But oh the magic. The culinary ...

"Golden Rice" (R) and ordinary rice, in the hands of a scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in The Philippines. One of the world's great humanitarian crises has a simple cause and, ...

Environmental changes are to blame for a 15 percent drop in the yield of "miracle rice" -- also known as rice variety IR8 -- since the 1960s when it was first released and lauded for its superior ...

Los Baños, Philippines – Environmental changes are to blame for a 15% drop in the yield of "miracle rice" – also known as rice variety IR8 – since the 1960s when it was first released and lauded for ...

Last week I received a very unusual invitation indeed. It was to a 50th birthday party in a swanky Delhi hotel, but the party was for a plant: a strain of rice known only by its initials, IR8. A ...

The rice diet initially treated kidney disease and hypertension but is now often used for short-term weight loss Its restrictive nature can lead to nutritional deficiencies, muscle loss, and possible ...

Brother Rice has qualified for the Division 1 cross country state championship meet in each of the last two years. If Alec Miracle has anything to do with it — and make no mistake, he is a key member ...

I worked on rice breeding for 35 years and developed more than 300 high-yielding rice varieties, which came to be known as miracle rice. These were widely adopted and planted all over the world. In ...