Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. With a growing human population and rising living standards, demand for animal-derived ...

Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...

Genetically modified organisms have been at the center of controversy for decades. But what does the science actually say? Modern genetic engineering allows scientists to introduce specific traits ...

I learned that an American research team conducted an experiment to genetically modify human fertilized eggs by genome editing. Regarding the application of genetic modification technology to human ...

In recent months, there has been a shift. Academics, government bodies and even industry figures have started to suggest that GM is a way forward and that it could ensure that we have food security ...

Sylvia Nissen receives funding as a researcher on the MBIE Endeavour-funded project ‘Whatu raranga o ngā koiora: Weaving cultural authority into gene-drives targeting wasps’. Genetic modification is ...

Britain today granted its first licence to genetically modify human embryos for research into infertility and why miscarriages happen, in a move likely to raise ethical concerns. Global scientists on ...

Genetic modification promises miracles, yet its dangers could reshape humanity in ways we never intended.

THE University of the Philippines Diliman College of Science (UPD-CS) recently organized a campaign focused on genetic modification (GM) and gene editing (GE) research in the country, as well as on ...