On the left: poplar sprouts containing CRSPR-edited gene. On the right, poplar sprouts with the same CRSPR edit plus gene enhancements to improve growth. Credit: UMD Ten years ago, a new technology ...

FDA’s updated guidance on genome-edited plants adds an additional layer of flexibility for industry stakeholders, while upholding the agency’s 1992 safety policy. Released on Dec. 16, FDA’s recent ...

Gene editing has enormous potential to help feed the world’s growing population, but it’s currently difficult, time-consuming ...

Researchers have opened a transformative chapter in agricultural biotechnology by unveiling virus-induced genome editing (VIGE) techniques for Solanaceous crops, a group that includes tomatoes, ...

Keith Slotkin, PhD, first became interested in transposable elements (TE), colloquially known as “jumping genes,” as an undergraduate student. “They just broke all the rules,” he said in an interview ...

A recent breakthrough in biotechnology promises to change the landscape of plant genetic engineering. Imagine a persistent invader—Agrobacterium—long used to deliver genes into plants. Despite its ...

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

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 ...

Qi Biodesign, a company involved in genome-editing technologies, announced that it has completed a $75 million funding round, which includes seed funding and Series Pre-A and Series A stages. Beijing ...

Chromosomal rearrangements, such as chromosome segment inversions, may affect the epigenetic landscape as well as gene expression. Different kinds of chromosome segment inversions have been found in ...