Plants' root systems also act as carbon storehouses, which reduce the amount of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere.

After a U.S. Court of Appeals Court decision in October that upheld the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ...

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 ...

"Germany did not agree to the ill-conceived and economically and consumer-damaging abolition of mandatory GMO labelling in ...

The genetically engineered food is also protein packed and sustainable, say scientists. Chinese researchers used gene-editing ...

On 4 December, EU negotiators reached an agreement to deregulate plants engineered with new genomic techniques. In this op-ed ...

Despite the regulatory and funding roadblocks, Murray and fellow researcher Elizabeth Maga continue to work on a line of genetically engineered goats, which carry a human gene that produces elevated ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...