Vegetarian and vegan are no longer niche concepts. It's estimated that up to 10 percent of the American population follows ...

India's first gene-edited sheep recently turned a year old and researchers who developed it say it's doing well. Born on 16 December last year in Indian-administered Kashmir, the sheep has been named ...

Canada is wrestling with how gene-editing should translate to voluntary genetically modified food labels, or whether it even ...

Like other developing countries, Indonesia is facing a familiar dilemma: how to feed a growing population while protecting ...

Genetic regulation of glucose homeostasis is central to the maintenance of human health and the prevention of metabolic disorders such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Recent advances in molecular ...

Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

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Scientists have identified new gene modifications that can make tomatoes and eggplants grow bigger, which could help boost yields in developing countries. Humans have been genetically engineering ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Placing edited genes in competition within humans could yield quicker results and reduce the cost of adoptive ...

An animal geneticist at the University of California-Davis told Kansas cattle producers recently that a gene editing technique more common in plant genetics is also a safe option for shortening the ...

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like science fiction. But there's a new push to edit the genes of human embryos to eliminate diseases and enhance characteristics parents value.