The Canadian government is currently considering approving the entry of gene-edited pigs into the food system.

In the decade since CRISPR gene-editing technology was first developed, it has been used to address a host of issues, such as developing new cancer treatments, designing faster rapid COVID-19 ...

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, ...

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 ...

China has approved the safety of a gene-edited soybean, its first approval of the technology in a crop, as the country increasingly looks to science to boost food production.

The important difference between the two is that in the case of gene editing, no foreign DNA is inserted into a plant, animal or microorganism to achieve improvements in size, ...

Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unnamed woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on earth, to the extent that ...

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 ...

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 ...

CRISPR can be used to find a specific part of a gene, change or delete it, make the cell express more or less of its gene product, or even add an utterly foreign gene in its place. In 2020, Jennifer ...