One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective DNA and fix genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia, and chronic disorders ...

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by rewriting it.

Historically, turning invisible was considered the stuff of wizardry and spells. More recently, physicists have also looked ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

This new patented toolbox, complementing - and for certain applications surpassing - CRISPR, is now available for researchers and industry in the field of genome engineering. The results are reported ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

Lehigh University bioengineering researcher Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez, an assistant professor in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science leads an interdisciplinary team applying ...

Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make yogurt and cheese were getting infected with viruses. Investigating more deeply, the ...