Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

Bayer remains a major partner for Ginkgo’s expanded agricultural biologicals platform, which includes the company’s Agriculture Biologicals Research & Development site in West Sacramento. The ...

Canada could benefit from looking at how Argentina and others have approached gene editing in livestock and its effect on ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...

For a country of over 220 million people — and Africa’s largest concentration of software talent — Nigeria still lacks a ...

Deep in Kentucky’s rivers lives one of North America’s most mysterious creatures—the Eastern hellbender. Growing up to two feet long, this flat, wrinkly salamander has earned colorful nicknames like ...

If a similar mechanism occurs in bTB-infected cattle, it could explain why some infected animals go undetected with the current tests. If key immune genes are epigenetically silenced, those animals ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while ...

A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The test reads tiny DNA patterns that reveal the biological signature of the illness. For millions who’ve ...