Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. With a changing climate and a growing population, the world increasingly needs more-productive and resilient crops.

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

Information on hazards to the health of the target food animal species developed using heritable genetic modification techniques; Information on any other potential hazards that might reasonably be ...

Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, offers recommendations for identifying the ...

The genetic modification of crops promises cheaper, more nutritious and more climate-resilient food for a hungry planet. Genetic therapies offer the hope of curing devastating diseases.

If successful, the genetic modification developed by the Transmission Zero team could provide a long-term solution by ...

Opinion ‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

Colossal Biosciences, which aims to "de-extinct" woolly mammoths through genetic modification, have taken a meaningful step toward achieving its goal — creating an entirely new species called ...

If genetic modification methods which are developed to fix this and other fatal genetic defects do not also fix the fatal genetic defect in germ cells, ...