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

An Australian biotech firm says it has successfully used precision fermentation to reproduce the most vital proteins in human ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

A research team has developed an optimized regeneration protocol for chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), achieving a significant improvement in tissue culture success rates.

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...

RNA-based medicines are transforming the way we treat disease—offering targeted, precision therapies for conditions ranging ...

CAR T-cell therapy, which transforms patients’ own immune cells into cancer-fighting warriors, has been extremely effective ...

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 ...