Recent biotechnological innovations like genome - editing in crop breeding are seen as major achievements to address the challenges of food security and also to reduce the burden of agriculture to ...

Norfolk MP George Freeman is seeking government assurances that "landmark" progress on precision crop breeding legislation ...

The one-off treatment highlights the promise of a new type of gene editing and the challenges of using it to treat extremely ...

Danforth Technology Company launched Spearhead Bio to make the process of gene editing faster and more efficient.

This isn't just good news for our farming communities but our thriving science and research sector will benefit too,’ a ...

A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made ...

Former UK science minister George Freeman has written to Defra farming minister Daniel Zeichner, seeking assurances that the ...

Whilst gene-editing will be used predominantly to develop new and hardier crop varieties, it will also be used to tailor ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

Gene editing can cure illnesses, ensure global food security, conserve species and more. But its risks of misuse are ...

Senior Tory warns government not to lose ground on gene-editing rules during vital post-Brexit talks with the EU. What’s at stake for UK farming?