The theme of the Institute’s free lecture series – “Promise and Predicaments of Genetic Engineering” – now has particular relevance with yesterday’s historic announcement that scientists have ...

In a wide-ranging lecture that also covered abortion, medical confidentiality, eugenics, genetic screening and genetic determinism versus free will, Steinberg emphasized that science and ...

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 ...

The Human Code Foundation says the technology that will let us define what it means to be human is around the corner.

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

Genetic circuit engineering is the bottom-up, local approach to synthetic biology; to be distinguished from top-down, global genomic engineering.