T he genetic engineering of human beings has been a dream and a nightmare since scientists first speculated about it a century ago. Futurists and transhumanists have long thought that genetic ...

We Need to Talk About Human Genetic Engineering Before It's Too Late. Published Apr 30, 2016 at 4:02 PM EDT Updated Jun 09, 2016 at 4:15 PM EDT. The power to cure disease is right around the corner.

Eight questions to ask before human genetic engineering goes mainstream. February 25, 2016 More than 9 years ago Ultrasound of a fetus in the fourth month of pregnancy.

A team of researchers from the San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET, Milan), led by Nadia Coltella and ...

Now that the technology has shown promise in human cells, the researchers plan to test mvGPT in animal models, ... (2025, January 8). A new era in genetic engineering. ScienceDaily.

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest ...

In his wonderful book “As Gods,” a thoughtful, lively and evocative exposition of the history of genetic engineering, English zoologist Matthew Cobb teaches us how, just a few centuries after ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

Scientists have coined the term "reprogenetics" to describe the combined use of reproductive and genetic technologies to select, and someday even genetically modify, embryos before implantation ...