Taiwan's agriculture ministry said that gene sequencing confirmed the African swine fever strain found at a Taichung pig farm ...

A lthough still in its early days, CRISPR has already been called the most powerful scientific tool of the century. Using ...

Bayer remains a major partner for Ginkgo’s expanded agricultural biologicals platform, which includes the company’s Agriculture Biologicals Research & Development site in West Sacramento. The ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...

Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...

For a country of over 220 million people — and Africa’s largest concentration of software talent — Nigeria still lacks a ...

The University of Wyoming is Wyoming’s land-grant university -- a designation grounded in federal legislation and the state’s constitutional mandate.

A case of Palmer amaranth, an aggressive and highly invasive weed, has been confirmed in Divide County, after DNA testing by ...

If a similar mechanism occurs in bTB-infected cattle, it could explain why some infected animals go undetected with the current tests. If key immune genes are epigenetically silenced, those animals ...

ETH Zurich scientists have created “MetaGraph,” a revolutionary DNA search engine that functions like Google for genetic data. By compressing global genomic datasets by a factor of 300, it allows ...

A team of Chinese scientists has uncovered a hidden 3D structure in rice DNA that allows the crop to grow more grain while ...

The Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine once stood 30 meters high and stretched 3.2 kilometers across the Dnieper River, creating one of ...