As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of their prickles entirely ...

There’s frequent discussion about the potential of indoor plants to cleanse the air in our homes. While this isn’t always a ...

The European Commission launched a proposal in July to deregulate a large number of plants manufactured using new genetic techniques. Despite extraordinary attempts by the Spanish presidency to force ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of ...

TOKYO -- The dream of creating therapeutic compounds from genetically modified plants is becoming reality. There are several advantages to this method. It promises to make pharmaceutical production ...

Lawmakers on the European Parliament's environment committee backed a proposal to relax rules on genetically modified plants produced using new genomic techniques. The European Parliament is expected ...

By Henry A. Onwubiko“A nation that cannot control its own seeds cannot decide its destiny.” –Captain Ibrahim Troure Genetic engineering, the manipulation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the hereditary ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, studied genetically enhanced crops as a tool to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The next-generation crops could capture about 1 gigaton of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. researchers have successfully expressed the precursor protein of insulin in lettuce and tobacco plants. Moreover, feeding these genetically modified plants to mice ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out a way to trick plants into doing the dirty work of environmental cleanup, U.S. and British researchers reported on Monday. Sign up here. Researchers at ...

Genetically engineered petunias that glow in the dark have gone on sale in the United States. The revolutionary light-emitting plants, called Firefly Petunia, has flowers that look white in daytime, ...