Epigenetic variation, like genetic variation, can be inherited and influence traits across generations. However, epigenetic ...

As the global population grows, the demand for food and energy is increasing even as extreme weather events make crops more ...

Using genetic and synthetic biology tools ... they hope to move from tinkering with genes in the lab to creating organisms with a global impact. By engineering plants from the ground up, scientists ...

A breeder can thus quickly evaluate the plants that are produced and then select those that best express the desired trait. Producing new varieties of crops through genetic engineering takes about ...

A consortium of EU-based scientists and bioethicists raise concerns about the implications and threats of artificial ...

In food crops, methods that introduce genes for desirable traits from other species have seen more opposition than techniques ...

An example is genetically engineered papaya plants in Hawaii, which are resistant to papaya ringspot virus. In the future researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be able to overcome ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

Risks of genetic engineering: Transfer of the selected gene into other species. What benefits one plant may harm another. Some people believe it is not ethical to interfere with nature in this way.

Collaborative research defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, ...