Transgenic organisms are living beings whose genetic material has been artificially modified by introducing genes from another species. This process, known as transgenesis, allows for the transfer of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Introducing genetically modified organisms into wild populations holds a greater theoretical risk of extinction of natural species than previously believed, according to two ...

Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple ...

William Muir, professor of animal science, and Richard Howard, professor of biology, were funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program to develop a method to ...

The sea anemone N. vectensis has become one of the principal model systems among basally branching metazoans, specifically among cnidarians. As a representative of the sister phylum of the Bilateria, ...

In a recent study published in the Biotechnology Journal, a team of researchers from Brazil constructed a lentivirus vector with expression specific for mammary glands and carrying the gene for human ...