Say goodbye to brown bananas! Gene-edited fruits could soon be sold in UK supermarkets

Daily Mail - Sep 28, 2026

Experts at Tropic Biosciences, a UK company based in Norfolk, used a technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 to edit three genes that cause bananas to brown.

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Flipkart Big Billion Days 2026 is expected to bring major discounts on the Apple iPhone 17 and iPhone 16, with additional bank and exchange offers. The iPhone 17 has been teased at a price in the ₹70,000 range, while reports suggest an effective price of around ₹79,999.

Mainland Chinese stocks hit 13-month low on tech sell-off as Hong Kong market holds up

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Mainland Chinese stocks fell to their lowest level in 13 months on Monday as the sell-off in technology shares intensified amid concerns that elevated global capital costs and surging oil prices would curb risk appetite. Markets opened the week on a sombre note, with the CSI 300 Index dropping 2.2 per cent to close at a level not seen since August 21 last year. The chip-heavy Star Market 50 index tumbled 4.1 per cent, capping its steepest single-day decline in five weeks and closing in on the...

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score: 9.5) - An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to

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Do YOU have a 'velcro dog'? How to tell if your pet's clingy behaviour is normal - or something to worry about

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As China mulls how to make open-weight AI less dangerous, report proposes 6-stage process

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Xiaomi-backed robotics chip designer clears hearing, eyes US$100m Hong Kong IPO: sources

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Artificial intelligence adoption is expected to accelerate globally over the next 12 months, with economists seeing productivity gains from the technology, even as concerns persist over the ability of data-centre investment to generate comparable employment, according to the World Economic Forum’s September 2026 Chief Economists’ Outlook.

Beyond Isro, India’s spy sat makers eye $100m each by 2029

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Dario Amodei of Anthropic to Dine With Trump at White House

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