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

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

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

The field of genetic epidemiology has been revolutionized by recent advancements in next-generation sequencing technologies, as well as the development of ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Cincinnati Children’s celebrated Nov. 17 the opening of a new state-of-art facility for its Applied Gene and Cell Therapy Center, which will enable the health system to increase clinical trials of ...

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

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