A new study is set to investigate how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." This groundbreaking research will focus on Lateral Gene Transfer ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

Armand Séguin planted his first genetically modified tree — a poplar — more than 20 years ago at a research station north of Quebec City. A few years later, it would be joined by hundreds of spruces ...

Last year Stuart Brand, principal author of the back-to-the-land, simplicity-is-god, do-it-yourself, hippie bible known as The Whole Earth Catalogue, opined about the irreversibility of technological ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...