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

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...

Researchers at Cranfield University are working on a new project to speed up genetic engineering in plants, accelerating innovations that will improve crops around the world. Focusing on the tomato ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are investigating how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." Researchers from the University of ...

WEST BOYLSTON, Mass. & SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransCytos: NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE Enginasion and TransCytos announced today that their collaboration has resulted in a prototype ...

Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn't more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that ...

The field of genetic engineering has amassed a huge toolbox: massive online datasets, gene editing tools, and genomic sequencing that is quick and cheap. The missing piece of the puzzle, according to ...

In the 22nd century, manipulation of the human genome became commonplace. Techniques of genetic engineering advanced to the point where the rich could custom-build fetuses that grew into stronger, ...

WORCESTER, Mass., July 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) chemical engineer has received four separate grants totaling more than $2 million to support his research ...