Old master work paintings are frequently cited for their depiction of historical events, documentation of culture, or portraiture of significant people, but there’s one lesser known use of some paintings for those with a keen eye: biology. One such instance is this Renaissance still life of various fruits on a table by Giovanni Stanchi painted sometime in the 1600s that shows a nearly unrecognizable watermelon before it was selectively bred for meatier red flesh. More

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BY JAMIE DUCHARME Thirty years after tomatoes became the first genetically modified produce sold in the U.S., lots of people...

What is Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)?

Although the CRISPR/Cas9 system has seen widespread application in editing the nuclear genome, using it to edit the mitochondrial genome has been problematic. The main hurdles have been a lack of suitable editing sites in the small mtDNA, and the traditional difficulty of importing the guide RNA into the mitochondrial matrix where nucleoids can be accessed.

This week’s cover story is about the debate over genetically modified food — often referred to as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs for short —...

It’s no secret that we are living in a time where chronic disease continues to rise at an exponential rate, especially within the past couple of decades. New evidence continues to mount suggesting that Genetically Modified Organisms (more specifically GM food) might have played, and do play a key role in those statistics.

"The misery of egg-laying birds has been well-documented, but what about the life of chickens bred for eating?" Andrew Purvis, "Pecking Order," The

We are in the midst of a gene-editing revolution. For four decades, scientists have tinkered with our genes. Since the 1970s, they’ve experimentally switched them on and off, uncovering their functions; mapped their location within our genome; and even inserted or deleted them in animals, plants and human beings. And in November 2018, a Chinese scientist claimed to have created the world’s first genetically modified human beings. Though scientists have made great inroads into understanding…