The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Humans have become very good at altering the basic building blocks of life to their advantage. Genetically modified foods are available at most grocery stores. Researchers use gene-editing tools every ...

Manyplants we eat today are a result of genetic modifications that would never occur in nature. Scientists have long been altering the genes of food crops, to boost food production and to make crops ...

The truth is India has been importing soya bean oil from countries like Argentina and Brazil for almost 20 years. Their soya ...

A new technique developed by researchers from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology described in Nature Communications on 13 August could allow scientists to more simply and ...

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers hope that by genetically engineering the mice to be immune to Lyme – and then releasing them on Nantucket – the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists said they are one step closer to bringing back the woolly mammoth with the creation of the "woolly mouse," a genetically-modified rodent with traits ...