genetic modification

Genetically modified bacteria that don’t survive unless given an unnatural amino acid could serve as a new control measure to protect wild organisms and ecosystems against accidental release. 

Researchers have discovered a transporter protein in rice that sequesters arsenic in vacuoles, preventing the toxic element from traveling into grains.

After raising more than $450,000 on Kickstarter, a startup making glow-in-the-dark houseplants attracts seed funding from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Genetic modification approach to control malaria-spreading mosquito populations incites conversations on the ethics of manmade extinction.

The lead investigator on a controversial study announces her retirement as Tufts releases a report citing ethics violations in genetically modified food research.

Scientists have engineered silkworms to produce fluorescent fabrics.

A Kickstarter project that promises donors Arabidopsis seeds transfected with firefly genes is causing a stir.

June 2013's selection of notable quotes

Genetically modified Atlantic salmon, which could soon become the first transgenic animal sold as food in the U.S., can breed with wild brown trout to produce a GM hybrid.

If the European Union is to have any hope of feeding its population in the future, it must end its illogical aversion to genetic modification.

A handful of French science academies and government agencies add to a growing chorus of doubts that genetically modified corn causes tumors and early death in rats.