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

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

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

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

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

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel traveling ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

The series exposes the enduring legacies of colonialism in African food systems, challenges corporate-driven narratives, and ...

Extinction used to mean forever - but maybe not anymore. This video explores the science of de-extinction, from cloning to genetic engineering, and how scientists are working to bring vanished animals ...