Key breakthrough for the return of the dodo: viable cells have been obtained and genetically modified birds have been prepared.

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The IUCN vote holds no legal weight in any nation, but it is of huge symbolic, cultural and political importance. By ...

No doubt the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, currently awaiting its Second Reading, which will liberalise decisions about gene technology experiments and place them in the hands of a single ...

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Under the legacy EU regulations retained after Brexit, all genetically edited plants continued to be regulated as GMO, regardless of the modification or the technology used to make the edit or change.

New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

As the climate crisis accelerates, there's a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

The series exposes the enduring legacies of colonialism in African food systems, challenges corporate-driven narratives, and ...