生命の「設計図」が収められている遺伝子の研究が進むことで、人類はその設計図を自由に操作できるようになりました。生命を思いのままに操ることができる、いわゆる「神の手」を得たことでこれからの人類の社会はどのような道をたどることになるの ...

Changing an organism’s genome is a profound act, and the tools you use to make the changes don’t alleviate the need for responsible regulation. Unlike “traditional” genetically modified organisms (GMO ...

KIT researchers succeeded for the first time in reducing the number of chromosomes in a plant using the CRISPR/Cas method – surprisingly without affecting its growth The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield are investigating how plants can accelerate their own evolution through a process of "natural genetic engineering." Researchers from the University of ...

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In his novel “Brave New World”, human beings are designed as cogs in the industrial machine. Advances in genetic engineering mean that future might not be far away. Genetic screening now allows ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...