Researchers have shown for the first time that flipping an epigenetic “switch” in specific memory-holding neurons can directly alter memory strength.

Chocolate prices have been rising due to complications in the supply chain, but Penn State researchers have made a ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is 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 ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from 67-year-old Tim Andrews last week. The fourth person in the United ...

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, ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

The invention has made it onto TIME’s 2025 Best Inventions list, in the food and drink category, and would be the first new ...

Mexican scientists call for regulations to distinguish between gene-edited and genetically modified (GM) crops.