Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

A team of scientists created a new gene-editing tool that they claim is more accurate than the industry standard, CRISPR. Researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia, developed what is called ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

We've made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some ...

Genetic engineering is poised to help biopharma realize the potential benefits of commercial-scale, plant-based protein production, according to a leading researcher. The idea of making therapeutic ...

In the summer of 1974, a group of international researchers published an urgent open letter asking their colleagues to suspend work on a potentially dangerous new technology. The letter was a first in ...

As the human population continues to explode, the need for efficient crop growth also expands. While there have been great strides in plant genetics and modification, there is still much to be learned ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

JUPITER, Fla. and DUBLIN, Nov. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ERS Genomics Limited (‘ERS’), the CRISPR licensing company, and Dyadic Applied BioSolutions, a global biotechnology company producing ...

Rob Reynish asks readers to look behind the political labels to what science can do to keep our food industries from falling ...