Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the operation wasn't more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

A small biotech company in San Francisco is using genetic engineering to develop plants that emit their own light, CBS San Francisco reports. "We've developed a novel plant that glows in the dark ...

With genetic engineering, humans have recently unleashed a surreal fantasia: pigs that excrete less environment-polluting phosphorus, ducklings hatched from chicken eggs, beagles that glow ruby ...

But are we ready for everything else which comes with it? Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Updated | Human genetic engineering is coming. Science is about to solve some of the worst problems that can happen ...

As Americans consider the possible uses of genetic engineering in animals, their reactions are neither uniformly accepting nor resistant; instead, public reactions vary depending on the mechanism and ...

Genetic engineering or genetic modification refers to the process of altering the DNA code of an organism to introduce new traits. As the CRISPR/Cas9 technology tool has demonstrated, precision ...