A new analysis tracking three decades of public discussion about GM finds economic arguments have increasingly crowded out cultural and ethical questions.

Aurochs, the ancient ancestors of modern cattle, once roamed large parts of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. New research by ...

Last week, in part one of this two part series on commercial genetic engineering laboratories. Synapse looked inside two of ...

The assembly pathway behind refractile-body proteins may have finally been resolved, researchers from Science Tokyo report.

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. E. coli RNA polymerase transcribed DNA templates built from an eight-letter DNA alphabet, adding the synthetic ...

I have completed a master's degree in a science-related graduate school and work as a researcher at a manufacturing company.

Twenty-five years after the draft of the human genome sequence, genomics has revolutionized many areas of biology, the diagnosis of familial and early-onset diseases, and the development of targeted ...

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.

Genomic editing holds great potential to treat or cure disease, but the technology continues to have its limitations. For instance, most current methods rely on either untargeted gene delivery or ...