A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

An ad hoc committee appointed by the National Academies to explore heritable genetic modifications of food animals. This committee will address methods for heritable genetic modifications and identify ...

Interestingly, scientists have been up to some weird stuff over the years, and thanks to them, people can now buy a ...

Overcoming water and food stress will be a big challenge for India as it becomes a Viksit Bharat. As India charts its path toward becoming a developed nation by 2047, few challenges loom as large as ...

Genetically modified organisms have been at the center of controversy for decades. But what does the science actually say? Modern genetic engineering allows scientists to introduce specific traits ...

Scientists from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology report the development of a novel method that could allow the genetic makeup of wild populations to be more safely ...

As the FDA gets ready to vote on an application to bring the first genetically modified (GM) food animal — a salmon — to market, Healthland pauses to consider the social contribution of genetically ...

In the lab, researchers regularly use electricity to deposit medicine, DNA, bacteria or other substances into cells. This process is known as electroporation, and it works by creating temporary ...

"Wider, appropriate and long-term application of genetic improvement in aquaculture, with a focus on selective breeding, will help boost food production to meet a projected increase in demand for fish ...

Genetically modified purple tomatoes will be grown and sold in Australia within months after regulator approval. The Purple Bliss tomato was bred to include genes from the snapdragon flower to boost ...

Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or only minor ...