Red and green small tomatoes. A new genetic engineering approach helped gene-edited plants grow faster.
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Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a novel tool in plant biotechnology.

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Spying on Transgenic Ants Reveals How Their Brains Respond to Alarm Odors

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Cancer Researcher Beatrice Mintz Dies at 100

EU Advisor Recommends Regulatory Exemption for Gene Editing

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GM Mosquito Cuts Wild-Type Numbers

Glowing Plants Firm Gets Venture Backing

Transgenic Plant Produces Omega-3s

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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