Developing high-yielding, nutritious and climate-resilient crops is vital to safeguard the future of global food production.

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology ...

CRISPR technology could one day create “designer babies, ” raising major ethical and social inequality concerns.

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

Should we genetically modify wild lions? Of course not, might be your instant response. But what if lions were being wiped out by a devastating disease introduced by people? What if the genetic change ...

The writing has been on the wall. The latest reports that Dentsu has engaged Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley and Nomura Securities to investigate selling its international advertising business are not ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that traits could be passed from one generation to the next fascinated early ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Farmers have been improving the genetics of their animals for thousands of years through selective breeding. Wild boars were bred until they lost their tusks and gained fattier ...

The phenomenon of parallel evolution, whereby similar genomic and phenotypic changes occur across replicated pairs of population or species, is widely studied. Nevertheless, the determining factors of ...