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Humanity’s greatest invention just got a 21st century GMO make-over. A team of scientists in China announced that they have created the world’s first gene-edited dogs, which possess twice the amount of muscle mass than...
A team of scientist in the UK have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos in order to study the genes which affect the earliest stages of human development...
It may sound like a disturbing idea plucked straight from a dystopian science fiction novel, but work has already begun on a company that aims to build a factory where genetically modified pigs grow organs for humans in need...
It may sound like a disturbing idea plucked straight from a dystopian science fiction novel, but work has already begun on a company that aims to build a factory where genetically modified pigs grow organs for humans in need...
Bio-artist Joe Davis plans to place 50,000 of the most popular Wikipedia pages into the DNA of apple trees to create a genetically modified Tree of Knowledge...
Bio-artist Joe Davis plans to place 50,000 of the most popular Wikipedia pages into the DNA of apple trees to create a genetically modified Tree of Knowledge...
Photo via koya979 / Shutterstock The Food and Drug Administration is weighing the benefits of a bold new technique that produces embryos with DNA from three people...
Cloning animals used to be a taboo subject - but not in China, where a Shenzhen facility clones 500 pigs every year. The farm, run by a company called BGI, implants around two pigs a day with cloned embryos. Clones and clones...
Photo via Shutterstock Have you ever thought of air as the ultimate crop fertilizer? We haven't either, but researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a technology—termed nitrogen fixation—that allows...
A team of allergists, molecular biologists and plant physiologists in Italy are collaborating to develop a hypo-allergenic apple that could represent the next frontier in genetically-modified foods...
Image via Shutterstock Genetic engineering is a sensitive and controversial topic, and nowhere more so than in the case of “designer babies.” Last week Intelligence Squared hosted an Oxford-style debate with some...
Cotton is at the heart of clothing manufacturing, but as most only see the material in its final, hanger-hugging form, few are aware of the incredible human and environmental costs associated with its production. Leah Borromeo,...
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