NtRON Bio announced today, following its recent U.S. patent application related to colorectal cancer using the IMPA™ phage engineering technology, it has now completed the filing of two patents for a ...

Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a ...

Using a relatively new technology called CRISPR, scientists in China have managed to make multiple, precise genetic changes to the fertilized eggs of monkeys. Two of these fertilized eggs developed ...

Fast new, one-step genetic engineering technology Date: May 22, 2013 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: A new, streamlined approach to genetic engineering drastically reduces the time and ...

With This Genetic Engineering Technology, There’s No Turning Back Designers of a “selfish” gene able to spread among mosquitoes say it could wipe out malaria, but the scientific community is ...

Similarly of dual use is genetic engineering, most commonly referring to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology that evolved from Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFN ...

A research team headed by the University of Zurich has developed a powerful new method to precisely edit DNA by combining ...

Recently, genetic engineering has seen expanding use in biotechnology due to advances in knowledge and technology. Many staple foodstuffs, for example, are now genetically modified.

The technology of genetic engineering is advancing rapidly—each year, it seems, brings with it a wondrous new enlargement of our powers in this direction.

How Genetic Engineering Saved the Hawaiian Papaya The earliest introductions of GM technology in crops were similarly successful. In 1995, the Hawaiian papaya was under existential threat from a ...

The technology starts by identifying a genetic alteration that could reduce pesticide resistance, hinder a population's ability to reproduce, or have some other desirable impact on the target species.