Texas farmers are not afraid of agricultural biotechnology. For over two decades, they have planted genetically engineered ...

Genetically modified organisms have been at the center of controversy for decades. But what does the science actually say?

In 2002, famine caused by devastating flooding and drought that occurred in quick succession compelled Malawians to accept ...

Manyplants we eat today are a result of genetic modifications that would never occur in nature. Scientists have long been altering the genes of food crops, to boost food production and to make crops ...

Researchers genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Researchers at the University of Maryland ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a new type of nanoparticle that triples the efficiency of CRISPR gene editing across multiple human cell types, a result that could reshape how ...

Researchers have developed a method that lets them genetically modify each cell differently in animals. This allows them to study in a single experiment what used to require many animal experiments.

A new technique developed by researchers from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology described in Nature Communications on 13 August could allow scientists to more simply and ...

Genetically modified plants and livestock are already a controversial reality. But what about genetically modifying humans? The technology could potentially eradicate certain diseases that run in ...

The protein nanoparticles could help doctors treat cancer and genetic diseases without using modified viruses, which sometimes have harmful side effects. (Nanowerk News) In a demonstration that helps ...