Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to ...

Genetic engineering is considered one of the most sophisticated scientific tools for changing the genetic blueprint of a living organism according to our suitable design. This attention-seeking branch ...

FOR more than 50 years, biologists have been genetically engineering organisms in increasingly precise ways. From the early, crude methods of the 1960s and 1970s, to the modern “gene editing” ...

Advances in cancer immunotherapy from immune checkpoint modulation to adoptive cell transfer of tumour-infiltrating ...

The return of the long-extinct wooly mammoth or dodo bird may sound like a storyline straight out of science fiction. It’s not. Several de-extinction projects all share an ambitious aim to resurrect ...

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age is precisely what its title claims it to be. Biologist Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain) has examined both the potential and dangers of genetic ...

Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a malaria-carrying species of mosquito from spreading the disease — and do it in just a few months. But ...

Matthew Cobb’s “As Gods” questions the ethical — and financial — implications of genetic engineering. By Deborah Blum When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

As Gods. By Matthew Cobb. Basic Books; 464 pages; $35. Published in Britain as “The Genetic Age” ; Profile Books; £25 In 2018 He Jiankui, a Chinese biologist, made headlines around the world when he ...