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 ...

Transgenesis is a biotechnological process that involves the introduction of foreign genetic material (transgenes) into a living organism, resulting in the creation of a transgenic organism. This ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The food industry has waited a long time for biotech products aimed at giving consumers better health and a cleaner environment. Genetically engineered animals, however, are not ...

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