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biological crop protection

: products used to combat stressors and promote crop health, derived from or inspired by naturally occurring substances and organisms

programmable medicines

: therapeutic modalities based on biological building blocks that can be rationally designed and arranged to achieve a desired effect

biotic and abiotic stresses

: environmental factors that negatively impact plant health

agricultural carbon credit

: a permit representing one metric tonne of carbon dioxide that is generated by quantifying and verifying the impact of nature-based methods in either avoiding carbon emissions or increasing the amount of carbon stored in the land


transfer RNA (tRNA)

: an RNA molecule that decodes mRNA and transfers the appropriate amino acid to the growing polypeptide chain

bioplatform

: biotechnologies that enable intentional and repeatable generation of medicines across many diseases or products for agriculture and sustainability

chill hours

: the accumulated hours of cool winter temperatures that certain fruit and nut trees need during dormancy to prepare for flowering and fruiting in the spring and summer

multiscale biological AI

: AI systems that model biological processes from molecules to cells to whole organisms

somatic genomics

: the study of genetic variation found within each cell of a multicellular organism

Network Medicines™

: a new class of therapeutics that reprogram diseased cells to release a defined array of signals that precisely coordinate multicellular networks to drive disease resolution

preemptive health and medicine

: protecting, maintaining, or improving people's health before they get sick by providing interventions targeted to pre-disease states for those that are seemingly healthy but at risk

carbon insetting

: nature-based sustainability initiatives upstream or downstream of a company’s operations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon storage, enhancing the carbon emissions reduction capacity of a supply chain