Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue those same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet increasing global food demands.
Practice better farming through nanotechnology
A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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