The genetic modification, or genetic engineering (GE), of plants and animals by selection and breeding has been practiced by humans for more than 10,000 years. It’s called agriculture. During the
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On 5 July 2023, a new step in the procedure for revising the European regulations that will apply to New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) was reached. This revision of the legislation
A team of researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, developed a new technique to make data storage in DNA more scalable, according to a study published in
A team developed a drone especially to collect DNA samples from hard-to-reach places, such as the top of trees, according to a study published in Science Robotics. Ecologists need genetic
DNA can be used as a reliable way to store a large amount of digital information. Saving the information in DNA is easy, but retrieving it or changing it is
The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic underscored that French medicine could tear apart over opinions. However, this “medicine of opinion” was not born with the pandemic. Rather, emergency situations unveil the cognitive and
A team of Italian researchers identified a group of genes that could explain the remarkable intelligence of the octopus, according to a study published in the journal BMC Biology. The