Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...

The field of fish conservation is grappling with the complex challenges posed by human-modified landscapes. As habitats undergo rapid transformation due to ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in ...

Tuo Gear and Veil Camo have partnered up to bring together some of the most advanced ideas in concealment.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has assured Ghanaians that Genetically Modified (GM) foods, particularly ...

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

Commensal microbes—especially those in the gut, skin, and oral cavity—are rapidly becoming programmable living therapeutics.

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...