This week, we’re talking about human genetic engineering. George Church is professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and stakeholder in various human genetics companies, including Veritas ...

This molecular genetic engineering (GE) takes a gene with a known function (e.g., toxicity to certain insect predators) and moves it into a crop to transfer the desirable trait. That enables the GE ...

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic ...