Pete Gustin's voice is heard on almost every continent on the planet. The surfing community is just getting to know him as the "Blind Surfer", but chances are pretty good you've been listening to him ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

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 ...

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Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Their goal was to learn where a cartoon bag containing coins would appear on a computer screen. The better they learned the task, the more coins they could 'catch' in the game." In this previous ...

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Developmental biologist Zhi-kun Li of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, first author of the new study, said it represents "a notable accomplishment in mammalian genetic engineering." He said the ...

Resistance to diseases could be introduced into susceptible crops using genetic engineering. Not only can this protect the crop, it can also safeguard farmers' livelihoods. An example is ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

Until recently, few would have questioned whether two tools, in particular — GenBank, the world’s largest repository of full genetic sequences, and the Sequence Read Archive, which comprises ...

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