"It offers huge potential to boost food security, cut pesticide use, increase crop yields and enhance disease resistance and we are backing it with a multimillion-pound investment," the Department for ...

How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has assured Ghanaians that Genetically Modified (GM) foods, particularly the Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea, were safe, nutritious, and ...

This week, members of the International Union of Conservation of Nature, one of the world’s largest conservation groups, voted against a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered species ...

From specialty travel rewards cards to cards that offer generous cash-back or points on everyday purchases, there are a plethora of choices for your wallet. It might feel hard to choose just one ...

Humans have become very good at altering the basic building blocks of life to their advantage. Genetically modified foods are available at most grocery stores. Researchers use gene-editing tools every ...

Humans can genetically modify plants and animals to be more resilient to climate change and disease. But the scientific community is divided about whether the tool should be put to use in nature.

Penn State is embarking one of the most fascinating coaching searches of the past few years after paying coach James Franklin more than $50 million in buyout money for the right to fire him. However, ...

If you're tempted to use a microcurrent device in your skin care routine, here's what the skin pros have to say. Elizabeth is a contributor to CNET and the The Simple Dollar, where she reviews ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...