A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers this week introduced bills that would require U.S. firms to obtain a license before ...

Gene-edited goldenberries clear USDA review, moving closer to farms. Compact plants solve farming challenges for this ...

Geneticists reveal that the Bo people of Yunnan are direct descendants of those who practiced burial in hanging coffins.

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

If someone — like a disgruntled scientist, terror group, or rogue nation — were to synthesize and unleash smallpox, we could ...

Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to ...

The genetically engineered food is also protein packed and sustainable, say scientists. Chinese researchers used gene-editing ...

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

Two young children were recently confronted by a coyote near the Westfield UTC mall — resulting in a bite for one and a ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new suite of statistical methods that dramatically improves ...

Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois ...