Maxine Singer obituary: biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination ... succeed in its main aim of restarting recombinant DNA experiments only because the twin issues ...

Fifty years ago today, scientists met to set safety limits on the new field of genetic engineering. This week researchers meet again to discuss big questions as biotechnology grows more powerful.

The Genetic Evolution Tournament (GET) is a Metaculus human judgment forecasting tournament established to generate forecasts and scenarios pertaining to the use of human genetic and reproductive ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic ... integrated plasmids is enabled by inclusion of a short “TAx9” DNA sequence during cloning, facilitating single-plasmid, one-step ...

To mark the 50 th anniversary of the Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA, the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology is publishing a focus issue about how genetic modification is regulated.

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In 1975, researchers met to discuss the emerging field of biotechnology. The issues surrounding the field today are familiar.

A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to ... made with an older technique called recombinant DNA technology. The company that ...

Eventually, participants hammered out safety protocols for laboratory work with recombinant DNA that went on to influence ... the tools for altering genetic material have become easier and cheaper ...

First, scientists have to understand where plants store selenium—whether the leaves, stems, roots, flowers or seeds—and then attempt to trace the exact genetic code that directs them to do so.