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 ...

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

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

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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool to help scientists better plan gene-editing ...

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