Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

The world population is growing rapidly, and that signals big challenges when it comes to how best to feed and fuel everyone our planet has to support. Already agriculture uses 90 percent of the world ...

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Distinction Between Genetic Engineering and Conventional Plant Breeding Becoming Less Clear, Says New Report on GE Crops WASHINGTON - An extensive study by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Researchers report the visualization of the dynamics of 'molecular scissors' -- the main mechanism of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic-engineering technique. One of the techniques used in genetic engineering - ...

The CRISPR-AI combination is still in its infancy, but once it matures it could be highly beneficial, even helping the world tackle climate change. Why fruit flies could hold the secret to scaling up ...

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 ...

Graduate student Arjun Ojha Kshetry and colleagues combined two key genes: WIND1, which reprograms cells near a wound, and ...

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Advances in the understanding of the aging process have been coming fast and furious in recent years and now scientists have now made an important breakthrough that could lead to a treatment. The ...

NEW GENETIC technologies are exhilarating and terrifying. Society might overcome diseases by tweaking individual genomes or selecting specific embryos to avoid health problems. But it may also give ...