Researchers use base-editing to swap out an erroneous nucleotide responsible for a potentially life-threatening blood disorder.

Maize enthusiast Jason Karl aims to continue breaking his own records for the tallest corn plants ever grown.

A sequencing blitz on the tomato genome reveals the genes that contribute most to tastiness.

Officials postpone the launch of an experimental program aimed at reducing local mosquito populations with genetically modified insects.

Scientists perform plant-genome modifications on crops without using plasmids.

Genetically modified bacteria that don’t survive unless given an unnatural amino acid could serve as a new control measure to protect wild organisms and ecosystems against accidental release. 

Researchers have discovered a transporter protein in rice that sequesters arsenic in vacuoles, preventing the toxic element from traveling into grains.

After raising more than $450,000 on Kickstarter, a startup making glow-in-the-dark houseplants attracts seed funding from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Genetic modification approach to control malaria-spreading mosquito populations incites conversations on the ethics of manmade extinction.