For more than 50 years, those engineering genetic material have pursued increasingly challenging targets. During that time, the tools and resources available to the genetic engineer have grown to ...

But the Los Angeles Project may also spark much-needed societal conversations around what humans can—and should—do with genetic engineering.

Project of the Day: A Love Triangle Complicated by Genetic EngineeringSimon and Oliver are longterm partners who stay together despite pressures from their oppressive, genetically-altered society ...

The Era of ‘Point and Click’ Genetic Engineering? A new genome editing technique is allowing us to alter DNA—the source code of life—with unprecedented precision. It is known as CRISPR ...

Glowing Plants: Crowdsourced Genetic Engineering Project Ignites ControversyEvans: It’s just such a simple idea. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the planet think that it’s science fiction ...

GEN editors discuss both the news and history of DNA and genetic engineering in this episode of the Touching Base Podcast.

Elaborate competitions to build the best robot or design cages to protect falling eggs have been a rite of passage for generations of engineering students. Today, there’s a new contest with the ...

I outline the nature of these questions and describe the biocentric basis for them. I suggest that fundamentalist opposition to projects of genetic engineering is unhelpful, but that biocentric claims ...