In our attempts to identify how human culture differs from that of other animals we have been focusing on the wrong things, a ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Adapted from a news release by the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley.The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to the infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations — and ...

The CRISPR tool is capable of repairing the genetic defect responsible for the immune disease chronic granulomatous disease. However, researchers have now shown that there is a risk of inadvertently ...

A ‘groundbreaking’ pilot, believed to be the first of its kind, aims to transform the diagnosis and treatment of ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...

Zurich-Reckenholz, 05.11.2024 - Agroscope is launching a field trial with winter wheat bred using a new method. Researchers are hoping to find new disease resistances that are useful for further ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long ...