An article in the Journal of Medical Entomology critically reflects on the hype surrounding gene drive technologies, a novel ...

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 ...

Any genetically edited wild organism would not ... The kinds of things that people thought were scary back when gene drive was really becoming exciting back in 2014, they’re the same fears that still ...

Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this ...

With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked ...

so that the same kind of mutation can be introduced ... and they can be genetically modified and selected for the desired gene changes. Homologous recombination creates the mutations; this is ...

Stem cells can produce any other cell type, it is just a matter of telling them in the right way. From a biological perspective, this means activating the proper genetic programme by pressing the ...

Crops directly feed us or animals we keep for food. They are commonly cereals, fruit and vegetables. We can change (or modify) crops in two key ways - selective breeding and genetic modification.