"The industry cronies at the EPA just approved a pesticide that drifts away from application sites for miles and poisons ...

The chemical, dicamba, is used to control weeds on genetically engineered crops. Courts previously had restricted its use.

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Some ecologists even refer to our current epoch as the “Pyrocene,” acknowledging how fire has altered the environment. But ...

Engineered algae are a bioremediation triple threat, synergizing microplastic removal, upcycling and wastewater nutrient ...

Combining genetic, structural, and digital innovations can provide an opportunity to develop climate-resilient cereals that ...

As a Ph.D. candidate in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nathan Piligian is developing a novel ...

By simplifying the engineering process and expanding what can be built, the Golden Gate method greatly broadens the possibilities for scientists working to develop bacteriophages as tools to combat ...

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

Field pennycress could become a valuable winter crop, with benefits for both carbon storage and farm profitability.

Excessive fertilizer use can be expensive and bad for the environment, but plants require nutrients to grow. To combat this problem, scientists have been attempting to use genetic engineering to help ...