The genetic engineering of 3000 sheep in NZ in the 1990s didn’t end particularly well. The ‘biopharming’ of plants, however, has a lot more potential, writes Laura Baal.

Pharming uses living organisms as bioreactors for cheaper, sustainable drug production, but requires navigating complex IP ...

Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows what researchers believe Tyrannoroter heberti looked like. - Hannah Fredd A chunky, squat creature that ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, despite attracting some critics Through gene-editing, researchers in the field ...

In 2016, Indonesia forestry police officials seized evidence of rare animal skins. Credit: Jefta Images/Future Publishing via Getty Images Whether people realize it or not, traces of the global ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

Plant biologists have developed a method for growing transgenic and gene-edited plants that cuts the slow and expensive process down from months to weeks. Publishing November 6 in the Cell Press ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...