Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not every rose has its thorn, thanks to gene editing. James Satterlee, CC BY-SA As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with ...

Tools like CRISPR-Cas9 are creating new opportunities for innovation in St. Louis, as well as risks around IP protection and regulation.

The biotech fairy must be whispering a whole lot of sweet nothings (made with genetically-modified sugar) into U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s ear. Or something. In late January ...

It’s safe. It would help farmers deal with drought, support biodiversity, protect the environment and decrease a farms carbon footprint. It would help consumers cope with inflation and pay their food ...

ROCKVILLE, MD -- In covering the issue of genetically modified crops, the national media have generally reported the views of anti-biotech interest group representatives, biotechnology company ...

Although genetically modified crops have some big advantages over their regular counterparts, initially creating the modified plants can be quite challenging. Scientists have now developed a simpler ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...

Genetically modified plants have been engineered for scientific research, to create new colours in plants, deliver vaccines, and to create enhanced crops. Plant genomes can be engineered by physical ...

Overcoming water and food stress will be a big challenge for India as it becomes a Viksit Bharat. As India charts its path ...

Great. Humans have done it again. First, the Yangtze river dolphin extinction, then the Gulf oil spill, and now this. Not that I didn't see it coming. I did. You know, it's always worse when you do ...

Researchers have developed a way to improve crop quality without needing to create special genetically modified plants. The new technique relies on a spray that introduces bioactive molecules into ...