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

In 2024 and 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of pups they called dire wolves. Using edited gray wolf DNA, scientists altered 20 genes to mimic dire wolf traits. But no actual dire wolf ...

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

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

In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the ...

When Ph.D. student Kshitiz Parihar began combing through dozens of research papers on two seemingly different topics—tumor ...

Forecasts in biotech market indicate that by 2030, gene therapy will become more accessible, potentially generating hundreds ...

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

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. Cultural practices — from farming ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

With prize money of 1 million euros, the award is among the most highly endowed medical honors worldwide. It recognizes ...