The long-awaited Gene Technology Bill has stalled because New Zealand First won’t support it as it stands. The sticking point ...

Professor David Williams, a New Zealander working on gene therapy at UCLA, has warned that the Bill is “unfair to farmers” and based on false assumptions about precision and safety. He points to ...

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

In a breakthrough for animal health and biosecurity, scientists at the Roslin Institute have successfully developed pigs ...

For farmers seeking to maximize beef production, all-male cattle could be a win: Males gain weight more efficiently than females. For scientists, successful births would add to a menagerie of ...

A new blood-based cloning method from Colossal Biosciences is offering fresh hope for Jurassic Park -like endangered species.

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Study reveals new mechanism behind gene expression regulation in animal cells Download PDF Copy Reviewed KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Jan 24 2025 ...

RIKEN researchers solved a decades-old mystery of how roundworms maintain telomeres without a telomerase RNA gene. They ...