Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.

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 ...

Researchers describe minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology (mvGPT). Capable of precisely editing genes, activating gene expression and repressing genes all at the same time, the technology ...

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

Chromosomes can vary in length and size, but they usually carry thousands of base pairs of DNA. While scientists have successfully edited the genomes of many creatures, most of those edits have been ...

FOR more than 50 years, biologists have been genetically engineering organisms in increasingly precise ways. From the early, crude methods of the 1960s and 1970s, to the modern “gene editing” ...

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

Matthew Cobb’s “As Gods” questions the ethical — and financial — implications of genetic engineering. By Deborah Blum When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...