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The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted the article Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize authored by a group led by Gilles Eric Seralini which was published in November 2012.

Scientists from Japan and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a rice gene that in preliminary testing increased production by 13-36% in modern long-grain indica rice varieties—the world’s most widely grown types of rice.

GEN News Highlights- Frederick Sanger, the British biochemist and double Nobel Laureate whose research laid essential groundwork for the sequencing of amino acids and later DNA, has died at age 95...

The Internet is a big place; when youre looking for biotech-related websites, where should you start? Here is our recent list of the Best Web. The BacMap genome atlas ...

The world’s leading experts in rice genetics – the science that brings us better rice varieties – are meeting in Manila, 5 - 8 November, for the 7th International Rice Genetics Symposium (RG7).

Scientists set out to determine what makes facial morphology so distinct. Genetics play a major role as evident in the similarities between parents and their children, but researchers have puzzled over what is it in our DNA that fine-tunes the genetics so that siblings - especially identical twins ...

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) say they have come up with a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redistribute hair from one part of the scalp to another. The approach could significantly expand the use of ...

People with negative views may blame their attitude in their genes. Scientists from Cornell University and partners discovered that a specific gene involved in emotional memories could influence how people focus their eyes and attention...

Researchers of Iranian Biological Resource Center (IBRC) have managed to introduce a novel archaeal species in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The strain named Halopenitus malekzadehii sp. nov in honor of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh; the father of Bacteriology in Iran.

Scientists at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany and University of Ottawa, Canada reported the successful development of genetically modified pea expressing insect resistance gene cry1Ac through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation ...