Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write, and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true ...

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 ...

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within ...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically ...

Despite the recent media frenzy concerning CRISPR and a much-vaunted genetics revolution, there have been few changes a lay person could use to show how our world has fundamentally changed thanks to ...

ERS Genomics Limited (‘ERS’), the CRISPR licensing company, and Dyadic Applied BioSolutions, a global biotechnology company ...

The series exposes the enduring legacies of colonialism in African food systems, challenges corporate-driven narratives, and ...

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 ...

Green MEP Martin Häusling warns that the Parliament's rapporteur is going rogue in her support for deregulation ...