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

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

The series exposes the enduring legacies of colonialism in African food systems, challenges corporate-driven narratives, and ...

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 ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

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

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

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

After releasing two gene-edited rice varieties in May this year, scientists are now focusing on developing GE varieties of ...