Two scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic 'scissors' that can rewrite the code of life, contributing to new cancer therapies and holding out the prospect ...

Mycelium of phytophthora palmivora, which can give rise to cacao black pod disease, grows from an agar plug, infecting a cacao leaf 48 hours after inoculation. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In a development ...

CRISPR powers everything from gene editing to rapid diagnostics, but how did one of its most versatile branches arise? A new Cell study, “Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of ...

In a development that could help protect one of the world's most beloved agricultural commodities, a research team at Penn State has successfully created disease-resistant cacao plants using ...

Genome editors are molecular machines that can rewrite the genetic code in cells, but sometimes they produce errors in the form of unintended sequence insertions or deletions, collectively known as ...

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. Found commonly in nature, these chromosomes are ...

Office of Health and Safety, Hokkaido University, Sapporo City, Japan Japan has rapidly deregulated certain types of agricultural genome editing, yet the societal integration of these products ...

GOULDSBORO — Three Maine seafood industry veterans announced they had purchased the 100,000-square-foot waterfront facility in Prospect Harbor, formerly the Stinson Seafood sardine cannery, among ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Yanli from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the structure and mechanism of a highly active Type II-D Cas9, offering a ...

In 2023, FDA approved one CRISPR/Cas9-based gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease, which marks a significant milestone in the translation of genome editing technologies into clinical therapeutics.

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Here’s a sustainability paradox: going green requires batteries, but making them involves mining for critical minerals–a dirty, ...