On the sunbaked fields of Southern Spain, a new kind of maize is growing. It looks like any other crop - but inside, it holds technology that could transform the future of agriculture. Changing ...

MOST STORIES about gene-edited children begin with He Jiankui, a rogue Chinese scientist who, in 2018, announced that he had created the world’s first such babies in secret. His reckless and illegal ...

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Stevens Institute of Technology has completely transformed its longtime chemical biology teaching laboratory into a state-of-the-art space for ...

Until now, researchers assumed that schizophrenia, anxiety disorders or depression arise from an interplay of many different factors, including genetic ones. According to the World Health Organization ...

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...

The grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy has awarded funding for a University of California San Diego technology designed to stop the spread of malaria. The $500,000 grant to School of ...

Entrepreneurs say it’s time to safety-test designer baby technology. A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create ...

Independent third-party validation has judged that Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) has achieved Technology Readiness Level 6, following the completion of its large-scale uranium enrichment demonstration ...

Abstract: With the development of high-throughput technologies, a massive scale of pharmacological and genomic data has been accumulated, which enables the discovery of the correlation between ...

The government’s long-promised Gene Technology Bill, which aims to reform laws around genetic modification, has run into a major roadblock. NZ First is refusing to support the bill in its current form ...

Astromech represents the strategic convergence of synthetic biology expertise with artificial intelligence development capabilities through the partnership of Ben Lamm and George Church. The venture ...