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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colossal and the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) embark on the world’s first effort to obtain the genetic code of the existing elephant lineage, of w ...

The projects include introducing genetics to high schoolers, strengthening the STEM workforce and tailoring breast cancer info to African-American women.

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 ...