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

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

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

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 ...

As a start, any genetic engineering would need to target regions of the genome that control the expression of genes for wing formation. This could have unintended consequences. Discover the latest in ...