A vaccine manufactured inside insect pupae has been submitted for the first time to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for regulatory approval. Algenex’ CrisBio ® technology aims to disrupt the ...

As the human population grows to a predicted 10 billion by 2050 and overall land mass remains constant, traditional animal farming may become a less viable method for food production. Animal farming ...

It’s a nutritious food source packed with proteins, vitamins and healthy fats. It’s also a popular one, consumed annually by more than 2 billion people around the world. Entomophagy, the practice of ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have discovered ...

Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji discovered that the pupae of the buff-leaf hawkmoth produce sounds by forcing air through holes in their abdomens, the first evidence of such a mechanism.

Traditional animal farming has fulfilled human nutritional requirements for protein, but insects may serve as an alternative for direct human consumption in the future. Researchers are working to lay ...