Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild ...

Genetic engineering is moving faster than almost any other scientific field. New tools now allow researchers to edit DNA with a level of precision that was once unimaginable. These advances promise ...

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 ...

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

More and more countries have decided that gene edited crops will be treated the same as conventional plant breeding.

It’s a December afternoon at the Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo, in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires. The sun is ...

It's easy to get lost in science fiction when you think about how people will look in the far future, but the question has real scientific roots. Body.

A team of scientists has developed a cutting-edge CRISPR system that can not only combat antibiotic resistance but actively reverse it. This breakthrough could change the course of modern medicine, ...

An Iowa State University scientist has teamed up with an Ames entrepreneur to launch a company that plans to revolutionize fertilization on farms across the state and around the world.