The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it halted all new clinical trials that entail sending Americans’ ...

Although Cas12f proteins benefit from compact size for delivery, their gene-editing activity remains limited. By adding an N-terminal α-helix to Cas12f, we created hpCasMINI, hpOsCas12f1, and ...

In early 1975, a group of biologists from around the world gathered at Asilomar, a conference center in Pacific Grove, ...

The debate on whether the ivory-billed woodpecker is actually extinct may be ongoing, but a genetic engineering company is aiming to restore the fabled species to its natural habitat. In 2021 ...

A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken. A growing number of US brewers are now using GM yeast to make their beers. Gene-edited food can ...

Tan teaches a course on genetic engineering and sees it as a promising solution for bringing back chestnuts, but he understands how controversial the technology can be. “The success as well as ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...