Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.

After releasing two gene-edited rice varieties in May this year, scientists are now focusing on developing GE varieties of other crops with enhanced desirable characteristics.

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

No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...

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

Researchers used CRISPR to change the number of chromosomes in Arabidopsis by fusing chromosome arms, reducing the genome ...

Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have joined forces to take on a pressing environmental problem by using synthetic biology to turn plastic waste into valuable resources.

This article examines some of the cell-based approaches that researchers are using to study acquired drug resistance and the ...

Sustainable bioprocessing boosts cyanobacterial pigment production for advanced biomedical, imaging, and commercial applications.

As artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a fast track of application and implementation, east China's Zhejiang Province has embraced the 'AI Plus' initiative with a key focus on biomedical ...

Wishful thinking is more wishful than thinking; science fiction is more fiction than science; and spiritual trust is more spiritual than trust. There is only so much despair most people can take. It’s ...