Connor Thorpe was working toward his PhD several years ago, when he began to worry he wouldn’t graduate on time. The technology he was using for his research wasn’t efficient enough. Thorpe was ...

Researchers have reinvented the classic "gene gun," unveiling a breakthrough that could revolutionize how we grow food, reported Phys.org. This newly engineered device dramatically boosts the ...

Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits. That technology, which loads genetic ...