The so-called ticking biological clock has been framed largely as a concern for women. We talk about egg freezing, ovarian ...

Researchers from the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Nanomedicine—which designs nanotechnology-based ...

The protein that protects tardigrade DNA from radiation and mutagenic chemicals was thought to be harmless, but can in fact ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...

The 2001 anthrax letter attacks in the United States, the 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic have something in common: Investigators have struggled to determine ...

In a major decision for food manufacturers and retailers, the Ninth Circuit recently struck down the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) exemption for highly refined foods under the National ...

In Natural Grocers v. Rollins, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit significantly upended certain parts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Bioengineered Food Disclosure ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

In a vote Tuesday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) approved further exploration of the use of genetic engineering tools to aid in the preservation of animal species and other ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting... Humans have become very good at altering the basic ...