Apart from ethical considerations, more importantly, ecological & evolutionary role of the species has to be considered when ...

Complex traits are influenced by genes and the environment, but especially the latter is difficult to pin down. This important study uses C. elegans to demonstrate that non-genetic differences in gene ...

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 ...

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders ...

New tools bring closer the possibility of exterminating species considered harmful to humans, which is fueling an ethical dilemma ...

CRISPR (short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) — the genetic equivalent of a word processor ... But their biggest challenge is the same one that faced early gene therapy ...

Carrie Buck was raped, labeled an “imbecile,” and sterilized by order of the state — all in the name of genetic progress.

The study suggests that reduced mitochondrial metabolism can contribute to body fat accumulation and diminished insulin ...

Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far ...

Scientists used gene-editing technology to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that would eat the eggs of Australia’s cane toads—and ...

AquaBounty's genetically modified salmon grows twice as fast as the conventional variety. The company says the fish has the same flavor ... active by using a gene from an eel-like fish called ...

CRISPR (short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) - the genetic equivalent ... biggest challenge is the same one that faced early gene therapy researchers: targeted ...