In a significant move towards the liberalization of the healthcare sector, Shanghai's Pudong New Area witnessed the first batch of six foreign-invested biotechnology companies, including Merck ...

So chance alone can cause a newly inserted foreign gene to take over the functionality of a gene and be preserved. The more “tries” a gene has to enter a genome, the more likely it is to be ...

PLASMID-FREE EDITING: To mutate a specific gene of interest in a plant (lettuce shown here), scientists first grow protoplasts—plant cells lacking a cell wall (1). Preassembled CRISPR complexes, ...

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

China will allow wholly foreign-owned hospitals to be set up in several major cities, and let foreign investors offer human stem cell and gene therapy services in pilot free-trade zones, as part ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, microbes and plants might have given insects an evolutionary advantage by passing genes to them through horizontal gene transfer. Researchers now report that ...

While some scientists argue that agricultural gene editing regulations are overly restrictive, a new paper from the ...

The Download: the first personalized gene-editing drug, and Montana’s Right to Try experiment Plus: Grok's fixation on white genocide was the result of an unauthorized modification, xAI says By ...

Two female lambs were born to a single recipient female at Srinagar’s Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology. But only one had the muscle-growth gene successfully altered.

“Implementing these strategies would significantly improve the efficiency of plant cell-based protein production,” Xu tells GEN.. “For example, cell wall engineering can improve protein ...