“The Birth of Biotech” is on display on the ground floor of the American History Museum through April 2014.

But most of the recent news has been dismaying for those who keep hoping that biotechnology will start learning from its own history that it has an image problem. Earlier this year, three different ...

At this stage of history, crops were being transported ... but has also been very controversial. In agricultural biotechnology, changes are made directly to the plant's genome.