Recent research is showing that increased spread of diseases is costing the agricultural industry billions of dollars, ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative ...

A genetically engineered fruit fly may be an effective form of pest control, new research indicates. The Mediterranean fruit fly is an agricultural pest that does extensive damage to more than 300 ...

Australia's first genetically modified banana has been tweaked to protect it from a disease that's on the verge of wiping out ...

Historically, turning invisible was considered the stuff of wizardry and spells. More recently, physicists have also looked ...

Genetically engineered breeders that lay only female chicks would eliminate the culling of day-old male chicks.

To overcome this challenge, it will take farmers like me. We can’t fight in the court of law, but we can make our voices ...

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West Nile Virus is coming soon to a barbeque near you. Colorado health officials diagnosed the first case of the season late last month in La Plata County. Infected mosquitoes have been detected in ...

Genetically modified organisms that contain nucleic acid sequences associated with the pathogenicity of microorganisms controlled by 1C351.a to .c, 1C352, 1C354, or 1C360 Genetically modified ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...