As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Biotechnology students of Rajalakshmi Engineering College (REC), Chennai, have won awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), 2025 held in Paris. It is an international ...

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

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics -meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Teens at a Georgia high school may have come up with a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. They took their idea to ...

AT THE END of 2022, I sat down with myself to reflect on the changes I wanted to implement and set the priority to embark on a fitness journey in the new year. After an eye-opening moment a few days ...