Some conservation groups are calling for an effective ban on genetic modification, but others say these technologies are ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Fifty years ago today, scientists met to set safety limits on the new field of genetic engineering. This week researchers meet again to discuss big questions as biotechnology grows more powerful.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

Timothy Hearn does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The DNA took us in a very unexpected direction, one we never would have gone without it, said Kari Bruwelheide of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, describing a find that is ...