Elaborate competitions to build the best robot or design cages to protect falling eggs have been a rite of passage for generations of engineering students. Today, there’s a new contest with the ...

But the Los Angeles Project may also spark much-needed societal conversations around what humans can—and should—do with genetic engineering.

The Era of ‘Point and Click’ Genetic Engineering? A new genome editing technique is allowing us to alter DNA—the source code of life—with unprecedented precision. It is known as CRISPR ...

Glowing Plants: Crowdsourced Genetic Engineering Project Ignites ControversyEvans: It’s just such a simple idea. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the planet think that it’s science fiction ...

For more than 50 years, those engineering genetic material have pursued increasingly challenging targets. During that time, the tools and resources available to the genetic engineer have grown to ...

Project of the Day: A Love Triangle Complicated by Genetic EngineeringSimon and Oliver are longterm partners who stay together despite pressures from their oppressive, genetically-altered society ...

A genetic engineering company has bold plans to “de-extinct” and “re-wild” the dodo bird — centuries after the flightless fowl waddled the planet. Colossal Biosciences unveiled Tuesday ...

Right now, genetic engineering requires access to a high tech biolab and that's keeping the technology from falling into novice hands. And only a few people know how to tinker with DNA right now.

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