Living World / Genetic Engineering

It’s Not Easy Being Seen

No need to dissect this see-through frog to learn how it works 02.05.2008

Testing the Genome

With Knowledge Comes Power … or Paranoia 12.14.2007

Message in a Bacterium

Researchers use DNA as a post-human time capsule. 06.04.2007

Ironman 2.0

Biologists enhance endurance with genetically altered muscles. 05.30.2007

Scientist of the Year: Jay Keasling

Which scientist had the greatest impact in the past year? 11.22.2006

Firefly Rx

How your favorite summertime insect may be illuminating drug research. 08.10.2006

Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria

Building a Better World With Cyborg Bacteria 02.20.2006

True Blue

07.24.2005

The Biology of . . . Flowers

Colors in the flower shop of the future may have little to do with nature 04.21.2004

Computer Bug

02.05.2004

Biology

01.02.2004

Terminator Genes

Here's another fine mess biotechnology has gotten us into 08.01.2003

Physics

01.01.2003

Botany

01.01.2003

Follow Up:

07.01.2002

Genetics

Year In Science 01.13.2002

Botany

Year In Science 01.13.2002

Works in Progress

The high-tech, high-controversy attempt to save endangered animals with clones and surrogate moms 09.01.2001

Genetically Altered Corn

How a genetically modified corn called StarLink that wasn't intended for humans got into your food supply 03.01.2001

Future Food

Beans that don't have to be soaked, apples that don't turn brown, and other wonders from the food technology conference 12.01.2000

Biocrops

that could win blue ribbons in twenty years if we don't watch out 10.01.2000

Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

If you thought reproducing sheep and mice was a leap ahead, you won't believe what the Japanese have in mind 04.01.1999

The Great Gene Escape

The seed companies say the plants they've created are safe. But who's to know what will come from a romp in the field with an untamed weed? 05.01.1998

The Year in Science: Genetics 1997

A Man-Made Chromosome 01.01.1998

Glowing Green Rodents

An unsuccessful experiment yeilds fluorescent mice. 12.01.1997

Buff Rodents

Knocking out a gene endows mice with an unusually muscular physique. 10.01.1997

The Good Virus

As bacterial diseases develop resistance to antibiotics, medical resarchers rediscover an older strategy: setting one microbe to kill another. 11.01.1996

Headless

Lacking a single gene, mice are born without heads. 01.01.1996



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