Plants' root systems also act as carbon storehouses, which reduce the amount of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere.

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change how we prevent disease, age, and define human potential. The same tools ...

"Germany did not agree to the ill-conceived and economically and consumer-damaging abolition of mandatory GMO labelling in ...

On 4 December, EU negotiators reached an agreement to deregulate plants engineered with new genomic techniques. In this op-ed ...

As new genomic techniques blur the line between natural and engineered plants, detecting tiny DNA edits has become a scientific puzzle.
Researchers ...

Despite the regulatory and funding roadblocks, Murray and fellow researcher Elizabeth Maga continue to work on a line of genetically engineered goats, which carry a human gene that produces elevated ...

Over millennia, there has been a seamless continuum of technologies for genetic modification of plants, animals, and microorganisms, with progressive improvements in precision and predictability – a ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...