The British company Oxitec, in partnership with Australia's CSIRO, has announced plans to release genetically modified (GM) ...

TVEC is a genetically modified herpes simplex virus that specifically destroys tumor cells and simultaneously activates the immune system. The aim of the study was to reduce the size of the tumor ...

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.

Extinction is still forever. But scientists at a biotech company are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ...

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar Summit, where scientists came together to establish guidelines for research with genetically modified microbes. Today many more discoveries and ...

Prostate cancer patients are to be injected with a genetically modified virus in trials starting next month. It will target tumour cells in the organ. The GM virus, it is believed, can mark the ...

Scientists take the first step towards engineering mammoth-like GM elephants to populate Arctic and slow global warming ...

His experimental therapy uses a genetically modified Newcastle disease virus, which can be fatal to birds but causes only mild or no disease in humans. It differs from the virus that causes bird flu.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically modified to carry a human gene—for studying hepatitis B virus.

UConn researchers have identified a novel small molecule for the development of preventative treatment for a serious and costly disease in pigs. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ...

Bacterial cells have been genetically modified to produce human insulin ... which are resistant to papaya ringspot virus. In the future researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be ...