The next generation of genetically altered food is forging ahead, aiming to be attractive to consumers rather than producers. Katrina Megget finds out whether Crispr means crisper salads ...

The pink bollworm has brought down India’s cotton production by a quarter in the last decade. While a few seed companies have ...

Introduction The global vegetable seed market involves producing, distributing, and selling seeds to cultivate various crops. It includes multi ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Florida to combat the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika. These mosquitoes are designed to reduce the population of ...

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are plants and animals with a genetic make-up that has been modified using techniques of biotechnology. Genetic modification allows scientists to produce plants, ...

Are Black Tomatoes Genetically Modified? To answer the question, generally, black tomatoes are not genetically modified. Most black tomato varieties are heirlooms, which have been cultivated through ...

A study of families who have lived through conflict in Syria suggests that genetic imprints of their trauma have been passed to their children and grandchildren. “This is a really great attempt ...

In one of the first trials of its kind, surgeons from Xijing Hospital at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an attached a genetically modified pig liver to a brain-dead patient in ...

The first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human was undertaken by Chinese researchers last year, according to a new, peer-reviewed study. The patient was clinically brain ...

This discovery allowed genetically modified (GM) crops to enter the market in the 1990s, with the Flavr Savr tomato, which was developed to ripen more slowly, becoming the first to do so in 1994. In ...

Scientists at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences genetically engineered mice to have woolly mammoth-like traits. Shannon Horning/ SciTech Editor Scientists at Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, ...