Is it okay to genetically engineer wild plants and animals? The International Union for Conservation of Nature voted in favor ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets. A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic ...

Horseshoe crabs are among the oldest species on Earth. The prehistoric-looking creatures, more closely related to spiders and scorpions than crustaceans, have existed for about 450mn years. But most ...

GEN editors discuss both the news and history of DNA and genetic engineering. We present a recap of the 50 th anniversary of the Asilomar conference, delving into some of the history from the 1975 ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is the father. When scientists kept running into aggravating problems with the existing tools and methods they were using to perform genetic ...