With genetic engineering, humans have recently unleashed ... ethical thickets of this not-so-new frontier. Along the way, the book glitters with lively, humorous vignettes from Shapiro’s career ...

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 ...

NEW GENETIC technologies are exhilarating and terrifying. Society might overcome diseases by tweaking individual genomes or selecting specific embryos to avoid health problems. But it may also ...

It was discussed because of a book by George Church ... one way to do that might be to bring back Neanderthals through genetic engineering and then incubation in a surrogate.

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

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 ...