At stake in the ongoing patent dispute over the gene-editing tool are rights to the most important new biotechnology of the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Pikes Peak State College students are benefitting from a new $1.5 million grant. It’ll give ...

Climate change, pests and disease threaten to leave us in a world without chocolate. Dr Karl meets two scientists who are exploring ways to protect cacao plants into the future.

Developed from a derivative of the immune system of bacteria, CRISPR enables double strands ... The results of their work were recently published in the journal Nature Communications.

Undercooked hamburger meat can contain bacteria. Materials such as plastic ... But those extra safeguards do not exist for every food item, and federal regulators are key for providing national ...

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a derivative of the immune system of bacteria, CRISPR enables double ...

However, this feature does not fully explain the ubiquitous nature ... preventing it from infecting more bacteria. The researchers also noted that this work supports the idea that phage parasites were ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research ...

Currently, there is a patent pending for the results of this work. More information: Martin Chenal et al, Discovery of the widespread site-specific single-stranded nuclease family Ssn, Nature ...

Biomanufacturing is a type of production that harnesses the molecular machinery in microbes, cells, and plants to produce a ...