Genetic engineering is moving from the lab bench into clinics, farms, and even family planning decisions, promising to change ...

Modifying the genetic structure of organisms is a central part of modern biotechnology. This article will discuss biotechnology and genetic engineering, providing an overview of the subject.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Last month a popular do-gooder website featured a curious headline: "400 Farmers Destroy Life-Saving Rice Crops, and That's a Good Thing." The story went on to describe how a mob in the Philippines — ...

Over millennia, there has been a seamless continuum of technologies for genetic modification of plants, animals, and microorganisms, with progressive improvements in precision and predictability – a ...

As Americans consider the possible uses of genetic engineering in animals, their reactions are neither uniformly accepting nor resistant; instead, public reactions vary depending on the mechanism and ...

In the 2002 film Spider-Man, a conspicuous, genetically modified spider bites Peter Parker on the hand, giving him qualities like 20/20 vision and the ability to shoot webs from his wrists. Then there ...