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

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

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

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

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

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

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) ...

With the advent of AI-powered protein design tools, protein-based therapeutics may no longer be constrained by the limits imposed by natural selection.

Hegseth Conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s “Retribution Campaign” (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp and Sarah Ellison, Washington Post) In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats ...

More than half of Canadian households have at least one pet. Humans are eager to deepen their connection with animals but the current science of cloning and decoding animal communication doesn't bring ...