If you've ever seen a perfectly seedless watermelon or seed-free lemon and wondered if the fruit is genetically modified, ...

Humans have become very good at altering the basic building blocks of life to their advantage. Genetically modified foods are available at most grocery stores. Researchers use gene-editing tools every ...

Scientists from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology report the development of a novel method that could allow the genetic makeup of wild populations to be more safely ...

Traditional methods of genetic modification can also see a rapid spread of engineered genes within a population, raising both ecological and ethical questions. In response, many regulatory frameworks ...

Serif Biomedicines has emerged from stealth with $50 million in start-up funding. The new firm is developing what it calls “modified DNA” as a new class of therapeutics that may be better at ...

New York researchers took healthy human embryos and successfully modified their genetic code by focusing on a single letter. The tool used, called base editing, acts like an ultra-precise ...

This Brush Up is sponsored by Cayman Chemical. Learn more about chemical inhibitors of histone modification. Histone modification affects how tightly DNA wraps around histone proteins, yielding ...