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

Gene editing is now reaching the mainstream, ushering in a new era of genetic manipulation. Traditionally, inserting or deleting entire genes, regulating their expression, and altering specific ...

Biotechnology has been used to improve crop performance for decades and growers have become familiar with how it works and ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger — the woolly mammoth. This "woolly mouse" marks an important step toward achieving ...

THIS WEEK, between January 18th and 27th, thousands of volunteers in a band of territory stretching across north-eastern Australia from Darwin to Brisbane are venturing into the night with torches and ...