By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.
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When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research that might not be illegal at all.
Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually changed medicine and the environment, nearly two decades on?
For decades, stroke damage was though to be irreversible.
Forensic genetics can help us trace the ancestral source of any wine grape – and may lead to bioengineered wines in the future.
Exciting as it sounds, most of this technology is still locked away in labs, not available in airports.
Gene editing could add genetic diversity that can revitalise species on the brink of extinction.
US company Colossal Biosciences claims wide support by Māori for its plans to resurrect the flightless moa, but many iwi are opposed to de-extinction.
Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that could lower their numbers.
Early human development is a complex, multistep process that’s even more complicated to study in the lab. Models made from stem cells avoid some of the trouble with using real human embryos.
New research sheds light on the interconnected nature of the human genome and what this means for future gene therapies.
A proof-of-concept study using bacteria shows cell therapy can detect tumours – and may one day be able to treat them.
Scientists can create viable eggs from two male mice. In the wake of CRISPR controversies and restrictive abortion laws, two experts start a dialogue on ethical research in reproductive biology.
A new book argues our philosophical and intellectual responses to technology have not kept pace with events.
Kenya’s GMO policy about-turn was underpinned by improved safeguards on top of a commitment to review each new application on a case-by-case basis.
The walls of your house could someday be built with living bacteria. Synthetic biologists are engineering microbes into living materials that are cheap and sustainable.
Plant breeding, informed by genetic analysis, could be critical to the future of one of the world’s oldest crops.
As genetic engineering and DNA manipulation tools like CRISPR continue to advance, the distinction between what science ‘could’ and ‘should’ do becomes murkier.
Recent successes putting genetically modified pig organs into people have brought xenotransplantation back into the spotlight.
There’s a new label on many US food products – here’s what it means and who pushed to add it.
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Visiting Fellow (Molecular and Cellular Biology), University of Leeds
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Personal Chair in Synthetic Biological Engineering, University of Edinburgh
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Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Research Associate - Creative Industries, Flinders University
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CEO, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
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Professor in Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Agroecological Futures, Coventry University
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Research Leader, Sport, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University
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Director, Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, CSIRO
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Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Director of Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Bioethics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland