Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

Anyone who’s tracked the individual and corporate offspring of Genentech Inc. quickly realizes the many connections within the biotech industry. Call it “Six Degrees of Art Levinson.” Now a new book ...

Recombinant DNA is one of the first stories in modern biotechnology history. The National Museum of American History contains collections which trace this foundational technique of genetic engineering ...

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is a nonprofit institute dedicated to innovating in the field of genomic technology and sciences across a spectrum of biological challenges. Opened in 2008, its ...

"Biotechnology" is a term commonly applied to the development of new medicines and therapies, the development of genetically modified plants, biofuels, biological treatment, or the production of ...