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

Lead author Kathleen A. Christie, PhD, postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School; research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. If you’ve ever spent time in a molecular biology lab, there ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

The EU has agreed allow certain foods altered using genetic engineering techniques to be sold without special labeling under ...

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

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) ...

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 ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

An engineering researcher at RIT has discovered the means to process data using DNA. Their biocomputing design is a breakthrough that builds on innovative DNA engineering and computing system advances ...

(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 ...