genetic engineering

New pesticides using RNA interference, or RNAi, are being deployed in our fields and food supply with minimal testing or oversight.

In an effort to stop the barbaric culling of male chicks, scientists plan to create GE hens that ...

Researchers of a new study say that two patients with leukemia continued to be in remission a decade ...

Commentary In 2003, Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University “successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs.” ...

It is only a matter of time before “Jurassic Park” becomes a reality. We are already living with the ...

Chinese researchers in southern China claim that they have produced the world’s first genetically-modified children — a pair ...

Biotech company Oxitec announced on Sept. 5 that it has started releasing genetically modified (GM) moths in Geneva, ...

A new kind of GMO is going by different names, and largely escaping regulation as it enters grocery ...

Researchers led by Rice University Professor Scott Egan have received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department ...

Genetic engineering is about to enter into overdrive.

DARPA, the research branch of the Department of Defense, awarded a $32 million contract to the Broad Institute ...

Scientists have reprogrammed the genetic machinery of baker’s yeast so that the fast-growing cells can convert sugar into ...

In 1990, Michael Crichton published his novel Jurassic Park, in which scientists bring dinosaurs that had been extinct ...

After waiting 20 years for approval, the world's first bioengineered animal developed for human consumption may soon become ...