Tag: genetic engineering
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...
How engineered bacteria could clean up oilsands pollution and mining waste
Vikramaditya G. Yadav, University of British Columbia
Rampant industrialization has caused our planet to warm at an unprecedented rate....
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
The science and politics of genetically engineered salmon: 5 questions answered
Alison Van Eenennaam, University of California, Davis
A Massachusetts-based company earlier this month cleared the last regulatory hurdle from the Food and Drug Administration to...
Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now’s the...
Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they’ve successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took...
New report on GE crops avoids simple answers — and that’s...
Peter Kareiva, University of California, Los Angeles; Leland Glenna, Pennsylvania State University, and Michael A. Gallo, Rutgers University
Editor’s note: In a new report, the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
