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A desert community lives on a diet of blood and meat that would make most people sick.

Professor Mohammad Al-Forkan of the department of genetic engineering and biotechnology has taken charge as the new vice-chancellor of the University of ...

If NIH prioritizes human-based science in its ongoing overhaul of biosafety policies, the oversight system that has evolved for review of a wide-swath of biological research could atrophy and expose ...

Human civilisation has been shaped by the emergence of domesticated crop plants and livestock from their wild relatives. This long-term process involved ...

Genetic engineering threatens the balance of healthy microbiomes. Genetically modified microorganisms, in particular, threaten this stability.

On the brink of the first genetically engineered (GE) wheat to be introduced into the U.S. market, after the U.S. Department ...

Under the agreement, Syngenta will evaluate KOMO’s non-viral, integrase-based genome engineering technology for research applications focused on the controlled and predictable introduction of genetic ...

Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study published in New Phytologist. UBC ...

UADA Amirreza Davar, left, a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, worked with Dongyi Wang, an assistant ...

As climate pressure mounts, new platforms tackle delivery, regulation, trait stacking, and data bottlenecks limiting agricultural genome editing.

Cytotrait, a biotechnology spinout company from The University of Manchester focussed on the development of novel traits for food and agriculture, today announced the close of its £3 M seed funding ...