Conservation scientists are racing against time, as hundreds of animal and plant species edge closer to extinction each year ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are investigating how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." Researchers from the University of ...

Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn't more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that ...

Researchers at Cranfield University are working on a new project to speed up genetic engineering in plants, accelerating innovations that will improve crops around the world. Focusing on the tomato ...

WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. & SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransCytos: NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE Enginasion and TransCytos announced today that their collaboration has resulted in a prototype ...

Genetic engineering uses enzymes to carefully alter genetic material. This line of study has led to hardier and healthier food crops, the mass production of insulin, and novel vaccines, and it’s all ...