Researchers describe minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology (mvGPT). Capable of precisely editing genes, activating gene expression and repressing genes all at the same time, the technology ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of a historic scientific meeting. Half a century ago, biologists had just figured out how to take DNA from different kinds of life and mix it together. No one knew the ...

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 ...

Influential inventions often combine existing tools in new ways. The iPhone, for instance, amalgamated the telephone, web ...