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 ...

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

In this light, the project represents a remarkable demonstration of genetic engineering, rather than a literal revival of an extinct species. That said, this is still an extraordinary achievement.

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 ...

Taking the guesswork out of genetic engineering STAMPScreen pipeline helps streamline genetic studies in mammalian cells Date: September 27, 2021 Source: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

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 ...

As part of The Economist’s Open Future project, we asked Mr Metzl about genetic engineering, inequality and the new “liberal agenda”. Below the interview is an excerpt from his book, on the ...

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 ...