A team of researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts have found a way to insert beta carotene, lycopene and phytoene into cultivated beef muscle cells to make them healthier.

State regulators in Florida have approved a plan to release 750million genetically modified mosquitoes they hope could lessen the spread of disease by lowering mosquito populations.

Scientists have genetically engineered and monitored a strain of the pesky vegetable-eating diamondback moth to prevent its caterpillar offspring from surviving.

A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license, was also fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) by […]

British households could be set for an invasion of super rats that are resistant to poison thanks to a genetic mutation dubbed L120Q.

Growing up i was always told we were witches and it'd come across jokingly bc of a incident that happened to my grandmother she was actually the nicest person ever but one night she was rly mad at her boyfriend and she sat there popping some bubble wrap saying how she wished it was her […]

The University of Duke in North Carolina found that the disadvantage has ancestral roots. They also found that humans today enjoy healthier and longer lives than ever before (stock image).

The attempt may be reminiscent of the ill-considered efforts to bring dinosaurs to the modern world depicted in 'Jurassic Park,' but the researchers say their work is firmly grounded in enhancing scientific understanding.

Canberra scientists are riding a new wave of DNA research, that allows them to conduct a census of animals living in Australia's creeks and rivers, through genetic testing of water samples. Instead of the laborious task of having to find and count …

But scientists at Editas Medicine in the US believe they can fix the mutated DNA using the ground-breaking gene-editing technology Crispr. Katrine Bosley, the chief executive of Editas Medicine, told a conference in the US that the company hopes to …