The Gene Editor for Hire

Will Atkinson • July 16, 2023

The Gene Editor for Hire Will Atkinson | July 15th, 2023 Imagine a world in which you can walk up to a vending machine, select hair and eye color, height, and blood type, swipe a credit card, and...

For the first time, mice are born to two male parents

Tiffany Zhou • March 22, 2023

For the first time, mice are born to two male parents  Tiffany Zhou | March 22, 2023 "Hopping Mice" by Stephen Michael Barnett is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit...

Explaining CRISPR: The Genetic Scissors that Won the Nobel Prize

Madeline King • October 25, 2020

While modifying the genes within cells used to be a difficult, time-intensive task, the CRISPR genetic scissors make it possible to change the DNA of animals, plants, and microorganisms with acute precision over a much shorter time period.

Let’s end the negative rhetoric surrounding GMOs

Jessica Cascio • September 21, 2020

Often depicted as “Frankenfoods”—monstrous mutant meals cooked up in a laboratory—genetically modified organisms (GMOs) get a pretty bad rap. And unnecessarily so.