Because of existing UN conventions and protocols, according to environmental law experts, a moratorium would have limited practical impact. For that reason, this debate feels like an era-defining ...

Genetic engineering is a key technology for boosting agricultural yields. However, it still has a bad reputation.

New findings from the humble pigeon may help in an ambitious project to bring back the dodo, an extinct flightless bird, ...

Many people are skeptical of genetic engineering, and especially of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food, even though innovations like drought-resistant wheat and insect-resistant corn ...

University researchers uncovered that dipeptides, basic protein building blocks, played a central role in shaping the genetic ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

The continually expanding toolkit from Mohit Verma's laboratory at Purdue University now includes a portable, paper-based ...

Extinction is supposed to be permanent. But Colossal Biosciences, a Texas startup bent on reviving long-lost species through genetic engineering, has other ideas. The company says it has taken a ...

Also, there’s still no easy way to test AI designs of larger genomes. While some viruses can ‘boot up’ just from a DNA strand ...