The Director General/CEO of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Agnes Yemisi Asagbra, has pledged her agency’s commitment to ensure the safety of Genetically Modified (GM) crops (GMOs) ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

With Robert F Kennedy Jr confirmed as the new health secretary under President Donald Trump, the food tech sector faces a ...

Professor Bernard Carroll from UQ’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said nanoparticle technology could help ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Scientists have uncovered a strong link between zinc levels in the human body and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Their findings highlight the importance ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

Methylmercury is an extremely toxic compound, and unfortunately it's often present in the fish that we eat. Scientists are ...

Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

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