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The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say
To achieve the European Green Deal's goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques ...
Starmer’s EU deal risks stifling the UK’s thriving gene editing sector
Aligning with EU on genetically modified food and agricultural products will create a regulatory cliffedge for a sector which ...
The world’s first genetically modified spider could lead to new ‘supermaterials’
The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...
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World's First CRISPR-Edited Spiders Shoot Fluoro Red Silk From Their Butts
Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have ...
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Gene edited crops face turning point
India takes the plunge, but some crop sectors remain hesitant. May 4, 2025, could be a significant day in the history of ...
The World's First Genetically Modified Spider Could Change The Future Of Military Tech
US Navy-backed scientists genetically modified spiders to create stronger, lighter silk with potential uses in defense, ...
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Aligning with EU on genetically modified food and agricultural products will create a regulatory cliffedge for a sector which ...
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Gene editing leaders call for 10-year suspension of heritable human genome editing
An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...
Implications of genome-edited paddy
Genome-edited strains can improve yield with less inputs. But they should be used for pulses and oilseeds, instead of ...
Biologists Engineer Spiders to Spin Glowing Red Silk
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...
Scientists Created Mutant ‘Super-Spiders’ That Produce Glowing Red Silk
Scientists used CRISPR gene editing technology to make spiders produce glowing red silk. They did this in an effort to eventually have spiders create ...