The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

Chromosomes can vary in length and size, but they usually carry thousands of base pairs of DNA. While scientists have successfully edited the genomes of many creatures, most of those edits have been ...

Extinction used to mean forever - but maybe not anymore. This video explores the science of de-extinction, from cloning to genetic engineering, and how scientists are working to bring vanished animals ...

Rapidly Developing Field Is an Amalgam of Genetics, Automation, and Computer Algorithms Synthetic biology is an exciting and rapidly evolving field of research that can broadly be defined as the ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

A new university spinout company is hoping to use synthetic biology to transform gene therapy manufacture. SynGenSys, from the University of Sheffield, plans to tap into engineering design principles ...

Today’s genetic engineers have a plethora of resources at their disposal: an ever-increasing number of massive datasets available online, highly precise gene editing tools like CRISPR, and cheap gene ...