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.

Researchers have modified the CRISPR gene editing tool to serve as a diagnostic test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.

Plant breeding, informed by genetic analysis, could be critical to the future of one of the world’s oldest crops.

Gene-edited foods won't require labels when they show up in US grocery stories. That may be right, but what if consumers feel betrayed?

Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.

As genetic engineering and DNA manipulation tools like CRISPR continue to advance, the distinction between what science ‘could’ and ‘should’ do becomes murkier.

MIT neuroscientists expand CRISPR toolkit with new, compact Cas7-11 enzyme.

How did teosinte, a wild grassy plant, turn into corn, the crop grown around the world? Scientists are using gene editing tech like CRISPR to find out.

There’s a new label on many US food products – here’s what it means and who pushed to add it.