Following the discovery of plastic-eating bacteria, many genetic scientists have experimented with Ideonella sakaiensis to improve its efficiency. One such research venture has been to genetically ...

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 ...

The Cavendish banana, my namesake, offers a useful illustration ... the huge carbon footprint of farming must be addressed. Genetic engineering offers the possibility of ending dependence on ...

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 ...

This week we’re talking about human genetic engineering. For a half-century, the ethics of human genetic engineering have been discussed in the abstract. Because the tools to edit DNA didn’t ...

Genetic engineering can lead to great medical advances but, as Matthew Cobb’s new book shows, it also brings alarming ethical dilemmas. By Henry Marsh Genetic engineering is the artificial alteration ...