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May 5, 2015 · Sweet potatoes are roots — swollen and packed with starch. The first genetically modified crop wasn't made by a megacorporation. Or a college scientist trying to design a more durable tomato. Nope. Nature did it — at least 8,000 years ago. Well, actually bacteria in the soil were the engineers. And the microbe's handiwork is present in ...
Dec 19, 2012 · Genetic modification is a special set of gene technology that alters the genetic machinery of such living organisms as animals, plants or microorganisms. Combining genes from different organisms is known as recombinant DNA technology and the resulting organism is said to be ‘Genetically modified (GM)’, ‘Genetically engineered’ or ...
Feb 26, 2021 · A British company is seeding genetically modified flies with human tumors, giving patients their own personal drug trials. Photograph: Sheri Neva/Getty Images. Joel Silverman is facing down a ...
Jan 9, 2024 · In the food industry, GMO crops have had genes added to them for various reasons, such as improving: their growth. nutritional content. sustainability. pest resistance. ease of farming. While it ...
Mar 11, 2024 · The fruit-fly ( Drosophila melanogaster) has been among the favourite organisms of genetics researchers for more than a hundred years. Many years of intense research with these diminutive ...
May 22, 2019 · The drug combination significantly shrunk the patient’s tumors, which remained small for several months, paving the way for further investigations into such genetically personalized fly models. “It is an exciting study. Nothing like this has been done before,” says cancer and Drosophila expert Tin Tin Su of the University of Colorado who ...
Jul 28, 2023 · It is still an enigma how, when and why parthenogenesis happens and why mammals cannot perform it. Sperling, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), has cleared up some of these unknowns by creating the first genetically modified animal to be capable of parthenogenesis: the fruit fly, or Drosophila ...
