From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a living organism according to our suitable design. This attention-seeking branch ...

As we enter entrepreneurship month this November, we’re celebrating the professors and alumni who are fueling job creation ...

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 ...

Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

Miami University’s Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (CBFG) has become one of the first institutions in the region to acquire the PacBio VEGA Benchtop System — a cutting-edge DNA ...

Spun out of MIT, the company is engineering a new class of biomolecules at 10x lower cost and drastically increased scale to advance gene editing toward cures for complex diseases. “We believe curing ...

The world’s largest network of environmental groups approved the exploration of genetic engineering tools to aid in the ...

We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of life, but by ...

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 ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...