From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

Helping certain genetic information travel to specific parts of nerve cells can ease motor symptoms in SMA, a study in mice ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are investigating how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." Researchers from the University of ...

Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn't more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that ...