Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. (Illustration: Michelle Rönspies ...

As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects ...

Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...

Over millennia, there has been a seamless continuum of technologies for genetic modification of plants, animals, and microorganisms, with progressive improvements in precision and predictability -- a ...

Innovations in genetic engineering have provided us with advancements in medicine, agriculture, food, and other applications. More recently, genetic engineering has been used to create the technology ...

Editor's NoteGenetic engineering technology is revolutionizing every field from medicine to the environment. Routine cloning technology has reached the level of cloning pets, and a single injection of ...

(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 ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...

Over millennia, there has been a seamless continuum of technologies for genetic modification of plants, animals, and microorganisms, with progressive improvements in precision and predictability – a ...