As genetics allows us to turn the tide on human disease, it's also granting the power to engineer desirable traits ... these and other issues related to genetic engineering is important should ...

Extinction is still forever. But scientists at a biotech company are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ...

In the future researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be able to overcome some inherited disorders, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease amongst others.

Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic ...

Genetic modification is a faster and more efficient way of getting the same results as selective breeding. Improve crop yields or crop quality, which is important in developing countries.

In a recent review published in the journal aBIOTECH, researchers from China investigated the mechanisms that help crops ...

Genomic engineering is the top-down, global approach to synthetic biology; to be distinguished from bottom-up, local genetic circuit engineering. The site-specific DNA inversion system is a ...

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.

In its quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, a Texas bioengineering company has taken its first steps to genetically engineer "woolly mice." ...

Alex Brown was all set to become an engineer when his older sister convinced him to take a different path. While still in high school, Professor Brown went to visit his sister at university where ...

The Zebrafish Genetic and Phenotyping Core provides expertise and equipment to support your experiments with zebrafish as an in vivo model. The Core can generate zebrafish with mutations in specific ...