Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

The EU has agreed allow certain foods altered using genetic engineering techniques to be sold without special labeling under ...

Plants have developed an extraordinary ability to synthesize a diverse array of secondary metabolites. These compounds are ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly ...

Europe’s firewall against genetic modification gets a major crack with a new deal on gene-edited crops. Crops tailor-made using new gene-splicing techniques should face fewer regulations than ...

"The most important tool." Scientists make breakthrough that could give major boost to food supply: 'A huge positive' first appeared on The Cool Down.

References to genetically modified food from supermarkets in the EU could soon be a thing of the past: An agreement has been reached in Brussels to ...

A research team has developed an optimized regeneration protocol for chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), achieving a significant improvement in tissue culture success rates.