An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.

James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning American biologist who helped discover DNA's double-helix structure, has died. Once ...

Billionaire Bill Gates' foundation will spend at least $1.4 billion over the next four years to help farmers in sub-Saharan ...

Low soil nutrients slow rye’s gene mixing, a study shows, offering new insight into how environmental stress shapes crop ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a ...

For growers and researchers, keeping pace with crop maintenance during the growing and harvest seasons is a massive, ...

Graduate student Arjun Ojha Kshetry and colleagues combined two key genes: WIND1, which reprograms cells near a wound, and ...

Plant biologists have developed a method for growing transgenic and gene-edited plants that cuts the slow and expensive ...

The field of biotechnology has always transformed cutting-edge science into life-changing medicines, but today that transformation is happening at a staggering pace.

Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, ...

Anthropocene is defined as the period where human activity alters the planet more than any other force. Currently, we are at this age of the Anthropocene where our actions, from excessive greenhouse ...

A research team has developed a deep learning–based phenotyping pipeline called SpikePheno to decode the complex architecture ...