A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

Genetically modified horticulture plants represent a dynamic intersection of modern biotechnology and agricultural practice, aimed at addressing challenges in food security, nutritional quality and ...

A new technique developed by researchers from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology described in Nature Communications on 13 August could allow scientists to more simply and ...

An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Testing in an animal model found that the modified ...

Interestingly, scientists have been up to some weird stuff over the years, and thanks to them, people can now buy a ...

Overcoming water and food stress will be a big challenge for India as it becomes a Viksit Bharat. As India charts its path toward becoming a developed nation by 2047, few challenges loom as large as ...

Proof-of-concept trial in a single patient shows that cells can survive transplantation without immunosuppression ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

Genetically modified (GM) crops are widely used around the world, but their effects on the environment need to be better understood. "Increasing land productivity in the form of greater crop yields ...

A worker unloads corn at a processing facility in Misantla, Veracruz state, Mexico, in July 2021. Mexican leaders have approved a constitutional amendment to ban the planting of genetically modified ...

Manyplants we eat today are a result of genetic modifications that would never occur in nature. Scientists have long been altering the genes of food crops, to boost food production and to make crops ...