The Given Institute’s popular summer series of lectures begins Thursday with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, titled “The Human Genome Project: Profit and Potential.” The theme of the Institute’s free ...

In a quote written on a chalkboard in the Caltech archives, Richard Feynman said, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” This quote is the root of inspiration for geneticist J. Craig Venter’s ...

LaReesa Wolfenbarger works amid the fertile grasslands of the Midwest, where a battle has been brewing over the last decade between those who think genetically engineered crops are the saving grace of ...

A Texas A&M University professor studying genetic disorders will speak about his work next week as part of a lecture series on campus. Edward Dougherty, a professor in the electrical and computer ...

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

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...