This initiative, now well underway, represents the largest and most complex silkworm gene-engineering project ever undertaken globally. The program builds upon years of proprietary research and ...

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Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...

Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a ...

Following the surprising discovery that our genetic blueprint is much simpler than expected, we’ve rapidly learned that we ...

Our genomes are filled with errors that were once impossible to correct. But in CRISPR, we finally found an extraordinarily ...

Bayer going after Pfizer for patent infringement is a forerunner for abuse of intellectual property claims in food and ...

Bananas seem like the ultimate dependable food, always waiting in the fruit bowl and ready for a quick snack. Yet their ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

As genetic engineering technologies such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) improve and ...

Historical records show cheetahs were present in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant until very recently, with the last ...