The stakes could scarcely be higher. Scientists make key breakthrough in effort to protect food supply: 'We can better ...

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

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are crucial for preserving biodiversity ...

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change ...

Sorghum bicolor is a deep-rooted, heat- and drought-tolerant crop that thrives on marginal lands and is increasingly valued ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Vegetable oils have wide-ranging uses, playing a role in everything from food processing, to perfume production to the manufacture of biofuels. With demand only expected to increase, a team of ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

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 ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by ...