Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Gene-edited crops are no safer than GMOs, and fast-tracking regulatory approval could trigger a costly backlash.

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

We've made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Rob Reynish asks readers to look behind the political labels to what science can do to keep our food industries from falling ...

Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. Asia policy. This ...

A video shared on social media shows a TV interview with a geneticist at “Disney Labs” who says well-known child celebrities are “grown” and “developed” in a genetic engineering lab. The clip, which ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...