Genetic engineering articles from across Nature Portfolio Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

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

Top scientists recommend controlled genetic engineering to WHO, highlighting potential benefits and risks in medical research.

Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that ...

The genetic engineering described in reports about the event has now become widespread; it’s difficult to imagine the scientific and medical world of today without its discussion of recombinant DNA.

A team of Chinese researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese ...

Researchers at DTU Biosustain (The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at DTU) have developed a new tool that significantly accelerates and simplifies the genetic engineering of ...

Learn more about the research of Mayo Clinic's Gene Editing and Cellular Engineering Laboratory led by David (Chun-Wei) D.

A sequence diagram is a modeling approach for visualizing the behavioral execution of a system. The objective of this research is to investigate the problem of security in a behavioral model (sequence ...