Those who voted in favor believe that, as long as there are no more than twenty mutations, the food is not genetically ...

Greenpeace and its activists allies have blocked for more than two decades the adoption of Golden Rice, which is genetically ...

New York researchers took healthy human embryos and successfully modified their genetic code by focusing on a single letter.

Yesterday the European Parliament voted to open farm gates – and by extension, our plates – to New Genetic Technologies (NGTs ...

In a proof-of-concept lab experiment, scientists demonstrated that intestinal parasites could make and release therapeutic ...

A GENETICALLY modified worm could deliver essential treatment inside your body for IBS or diabetes, research has suggested.

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the globe, have evolved to survive inside the human gut for years, secreting ...

Last summer, a letter endorsed by more than 200 groups including the Canadian Wheat Board and Saskatchewan Association of rural Municipalities asked Ottawa to delay approval of GM ...

Researchers genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Researchers at the University of Maryland ...

The US could soon be swarming with genetically altered mosquitoes after the Environmental Protection Agency approved a plan to test the insects. It is hoped the new altered mosquitoes will ward off ...

A pilot study in Florida that involved the release of 5 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida has wrapped up. The bugs, which have been dubbed “Jurassic Park” mosquitoes by some critics, ...