Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a Silicon Valley startup, involves a couple with a genetic abnormality who want to ...

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

Today's high-tech electronics and green energy technologies would not function without rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 ...

Scientists have kept a genetically modified pig kidney working inside a brain-dead man for 61 days – and successfully ...

Did you know all sweet potatoes are naturally genetically modified? Learn how nature shaped this nutritious root vegetable ...

Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to ...

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

Two parallel and complementary studies conducted by the IDIBELL team led by Dr. Alessandra Giorgetti have succeeded in ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

A pig kidney with one genetic change functioned in a brain-dead human for 61 days, more than doubling previous records.

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.