Scientists at the University of Sheffield are conducting research into natural genetic engineering with a focus on Lateral Gene Transfer to help improve crop resilience to extreme weather.

Over the past two decades, synthetic biology has fueled advancements across a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, bioremediation, biofuel production, and chemical manufacturing. Today, ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

Professor David Williams, a New Zealander working on gene therapy at UCLA, has warned that the Bill is “unfair to farmers” and based on false assumptions about precision and safety. He points to ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

There has been an endless “war” between pathogen organisms armed with the ability to establish new, genetically based ...

Scientists are venturing into the realm of de-extinction, aiming to revive the woolly mammoth using advanced genetic engineering techniques. This endeavor is part of a broader initiative targeting 25 ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

Should genetically engineered species roam free? Scientists are debating the efforts ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.