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

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

We've made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some ...

The EU has agreed allow certain foods altered using genetic engineering techniques to be sold without special labeling under ...

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

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

After releasing two gene-edited rice varieties in May this year, scientists are now focusing on developing GE varieties of ...

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 ...

A once-beleaguered gene-therapy stock just landed a major vote of confidence—and the timing seems anything but accidental.

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Spaceflight, genetic tinkering, and the psychological implications of technological acceleration are explored with accuracy ...

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 ...