Graduate student Arjun Ojha Kshetry and colleagues combined two key genes: WIND1, which reprograms cells near a wound, and ...

The world population is growing rapidly, and that signals big challenges when it comes to how best to feed and fuel everyone our planet has to support. Already agriculture uses 90 percent of the world ...

The UN-endorsed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents a shared roadmap for peace and prosperity for people today, ...

Is genetic engineering advantageous or disadvantageous for humanity? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are investigating how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." Researchers from the University of ...

Researchers report the visualization of the dynamics of 'molecular scissors' -- the main mechanism of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic-engineering technique. One of the techniques used in genetic engineering - ...

Thanks to pioneering research in UC Davis’ Department of Animal Science, a pig may one day produce a pancreas rather than a pork chop. It is the latest foray for a small but tenacious research group, ...