Scientists have long sought to understand why some plants are fragrant powerhouses while others remain subtle. Now, a ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human activity has caused population crashes carry long-lasting genetic traces of ...

Alex Walters works with the ORNL SMART Plant 1.0 system that robotically samples and treats plant tissue, expediting the ...

The genetic engineering of 3000 sheep in NZ in the 1990s didn’t end particularly well. The ‘biopharming’ of plants, however, has a lot more potential, writes Laura Baal.

The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 describes biotechnology and synthetic biology as emerging general-purpose technologies.

The breakthrough, headed by Walter Gassmann and Jianbin Su, is the first step in better suiting plants for unstable weather.

As a Ph.D. candidate in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nathan Piligian is developing a novel method of delivering genes into plant cells so that they are better adapted to ...

Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

The Gene Synthesis Market has emerged as one of the most transformative segments within modern biotechnology, driven by rapid ...

As the global population climbs toward 10 billion and climate change strains farmland, scientists are searching for new ways to feed the world. A group of Cornell food science researchers say one ...