In a rapidly changing climate landscape, the plants we rely on for food, textiles and more face a multitude of challenges, ...

University of Florida researchers are addressing a critical gap in medical genetic research—ensuring it better represents and benefits people of all backgrounds. Their work, led by Kiley Graim, Ph.D., ...

Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change how we prevent disease, age, and define human potential. The same tools ...

Influential inventions often combine existing tools in new ways. The iPhone, for instance, amalgamated the telephone, web browser and camera, among many other devices. The same is now possible in gene ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

Engineering Our Future, Questioning Our Conscience reflects on technology, ethics and responsibility, examining how ...

Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription ...

Sherry Gao, Tyler Daniel (pictured) and their coauthors developed a new tool that can simultaneously and independently edit multiple genes and regulate their expression. Influential inventions often ...