I will start by saying that biotechnology is a game Changer, it has revolutionised various fields, including medicare, agricultural business, industrial engineering and environmental science, ...

GROWING up, I remember my family often reminiscing about the fruits and vegetables of their youth. “They just do not taste the same anymore,” my mother would say as she bit into a store-bought tom ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block of life. It carries the genetic instructions that dictate ...

Methylmercury is an extremely toxic compound, and unfortunately it's often present in the fish that we eat. Scientists are ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Scientists in the polo-obsessed nation have produced world's first genetically edited horses, designed to outrun champion ...

Some experts in Agriculture and policy have called on the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to pay attention to gene editing, achieved with the aid of Genetically Modified Organism ...

Over 200 environmental and farmer groups warn that Poland's deregulation proposal ignores critical questions ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...