genetically modified, genetics & genomics

The biotech Oxitec had released the genetically engineered insects with the hope that they would breed with wild populations and produce offspring that die young. But that’s not always happening.

The fast-growing fish can now be raised and sold in the US, although it’s likely to be some time before the product hits the market.

The large-scale experiments aim to test how the technology would fare in the wild, if deployed to knock down populations of the pests.

Risks that pertain to all manner of new crops are often misattributed to genetic engineering. This distorts the public’s view of the technology.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.

Tweaks to a transformation protocol in 1986 cemented the little plant's mighty role in plant genetics research.

It behooves the scientific community to reflect on the public’s “Franken-” characterization of genetically modified foods.

A Brazilian town will ramp up the release of insects engineered to shrink mosquito populations.

One of three suspect publications from a group of scientists in Italy is pulled for plagiarism while an investigation is ongoing.

The first two bulls genetically engineered to lack horns arrived at the University of California, Davis, for breeding.

The US Food and Drug Administration greenlights a rare-disease drug that is produced in the eggs of genetically modified chickens.

The country will opt-out of growing genetically modified foods that have been approved for cultivation in the European Union.

Apples genetically modified to resist browning can be commercially planted in the U.S., the government ruled last week.

Scientists design bacteria reliant upon synthetic amino acids to contain genetically modified organisms.

New technologies will make it easier to manipulate animal genomes, but food products from genetically engineered animals face a long road to market.

Will the public swallow science’s best solution to one of the most dangerous wheat pathogens on the planet?

See how a ruinous fungus that attacks wheat wreaks its damage.

Environment Canada allows production of genetically modified salmon eggs at commercial levels.

A variety of genetic strategies to counter insect-borne diseases are close to maturity.