A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Area high school and community college students have a unique opportunity to play with jellyfish genes to literally make bacteria glow. It’s part of a free workshop, "Introduction to Genetic ...

It might seem that dulling a cutting tool is the last thing an engineer would want to do, but Stanley Qi is no ordinary engineer. By blunting the gene-editing scissors known as CRISPR/Cas9, he made ...

Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn't more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that ...

In these waning days of the second decade of the twenty-first century, technologists and investors are beginning to lay the foundations for new, truly transformational technologies that have the ...