Horseshoe crabs are among the oldest species on earth. The prehistoric-looking creatures, more closely related to spiders and scorpions than crustaceans, have existed for about 450 million years. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Changes to Australian food safety regulations, which came into force this month, open the door to new kinds of gene-edited meats on the market. Gene-edited chickens are already in development in ...

KJ Muldoon wasn’t supposed to make it to his first birthday. He was born in August 2024 with carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a genetic disorder that afflicts about 1 in 1.3 million ...

Nearly a year after licensing Monte Rosa Therapeutics’ Phase II-bound autoimmune disease candidate MRT-6160, Novartis has agreed to partner on developing additional molecular glue degraders (MGDs) for ...

British scientists have discovered genetic clues into how malaria-carrying mosquitoes are evading efforts to control them. A team has examined Anopheles funestus (An. funestus), one of the most ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Science Global issues Anja Kimmig 09/15/2025 Genetically modified crops are under fire, even though scientists agree that genetic engineering is a key technology for boosting yields and profits, as ...

It all started with the idea of finding a better way to monitor genes. Plant biologists have traditionally employed various techniques to precisely track how info ...