Should we start to tinker with the human genome and alter our own biology?

Animal-to-human organ transplants promise a future where survival no longer depends on another person’s death.

The Director-General of the National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, has assured Nigerian farmers that modern biotechnology, including genetically modified ...

The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...

Explore the contrasting acceptance of gene therapy and genetic crop modification, highlighting societal attitudes and ...

Scientists are exploring genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce malaria transmission by altering mosquito populations at ...

A new platform identifies which genes drive particle assembly to engineer cells that yield more potent delivery vehicles.

In a new study of women in post-menopause, white women with higher genetic risk of obesity regained weight about two times ...

Japan is set to outlaw research and treatments involving the genetic modification of human fertilized eggs using genome editing technology and their subsequent implantation into human or animal ...

Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...

A research team grows algae in controlled bioreactors designed for large-scale applications, and the hope is to integrate the ...

Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds her Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2025. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is set to outlaw research and treatments involving ...