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 ...

Many scientists predict that, by the middle of this century, we will be able to cure many diseases and even enhance human capabilities such as intelligence and physical stamina by means of genetic ...

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” ...

Rob Reynish asks readers to look behind the political labels to what science can do to keep our food industries from falling ...

Nature has spent millennia honing the virus into a ruthlessly efficient delivery vehicle for nucleic acids. Viruses have even been harnessed for our own delivery purposes. But some applications have ...

The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, recently announced that it intends to loosen rules for gene-edited plants. Seeds derived through gene-editing technologies ...

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 ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...