Selling genetically-modified purple tomato seeds to home gardeners could raise the risk of contamination of organic vegetable ...

The agriculture sector faces significant challenges due to increasing biotic and abiotic stresses that severely threaten the quality and quantity of crop ...

Through a recent notice, the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Crops tailor-made using new gene-splicing techniques should face fewer regulations than genetically modified organisms, EU negotiators agreed Thursday. Critics are calling it a GMO rebrand; proponents ...

The genetic engineering of mosquitoes offers a potentially transformative, self-sustaining opportunity for malaria control and elimination in Africa. By rendering mosquitoes unable to transmit the ...

The modification of the genetic makeup of cells. Genetic engineering modifies the DNA in cells to alter their behavior. In 1953, the discovery of the DNA double helix, technically deoxyribonucleic ...

Despite its small size, this humble plant harbors a genetic mechanism that appears to have been critical for the early evolution of land plants. The gene, called MpARF2, acts as a master regulator of ...

Rice research stands at the forefront of efforts to bolster global food security in the face of intensifying abiotic stresses due to climate change and ...

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