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

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

Rob Reynish asks readers to look behind the political labels to what science can do to keep our food industries from falling ...

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

More than half of Canadian households have at least one pet. Humans are eager to deepen their connection with animals but the ...

The Global Humanized Mice Model Market is set for growth driven by technological advancements in genetic engineering and ...

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.

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on a "de-extinction" journey is New Zealand’s moa nunui (giant moa). The team ...

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 ...

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

Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an ever more serious challenge. Heavy vehicles and machinery in modern ...

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.