American researchers have developed a method to increase livestock production while imparting specific traits to the animals.

This guide provides an in-depth exploration of the essential role plasmids play in biotechnology and genetic engineering. From foundational concepts to the complexities of high-throughput production, ...

Many people are skeptical of genetic engineering, and especially of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food, even though innovations like drought-resistant wheat and insect-resistant corn ...

Overview of the process of obtaining genomic diversity of influenza virus in a population replicated from a single particle. (a) MDCK cells were infected with influenza vi ...

US researchers successfully created early-stage human embryos from adult skin cells, bypassing traditional egg cells through ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been linked to social behavior in humans, Ian Traniello at the University of ...

Human eggs made from a volunteer’s skin DNA were fertilized in a lab in September, and some grew for nearly a week, though ...

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ...