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 ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do.

Wildlife conservationist turned legal scholar Alex Erwin constructs the legal framework to begin to establish guidance around genetic engineering.

Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to live to adulthood - though with significant developmental abnormalities ...

Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.