A special committee of the US National Academy of Sciences agrees with long-time critics of biotechnology that transgenic animals could threaten the environment. Genetic manipulation of the food ...

Since its inception over ten years ago, CounterPunch covered the attempt to sell and market the genetic modified (GM) AquAdvantage salmon. Most CounterPunch readers will be happy to know that ...

Genetically modified mice, fruit flies, and zebrafish are commonly used in research. Scientists have now developed a method for detecting the engineered genes they carry and may leave traces of in the ...

LONDON — The UK could be left behind in the race to develop new treatments for diseases if pressure groups succeed in winning a ban on the use of genetically modified animals in research, according to ...

A meeting of experts on GM heard that the country’s biosafety authority — National Biosafety Authority (NBA) — is set to finalise draft guidelines on use of the animals. Addressing a roundtable ...

A new report by the Royal Society claims that GM farm animals could be an important addition to third world farming. Animals have already been engineered to resist tropical illnesses, and scientists ...

The king of the jungle likes his cologne, specifically Aspen for Men or Lady Stetson. See, big cats such as the Potter Park Zoo's Kota and his female lion counterparts, Uluna and Saida, are so driven ...

A lot of people get squeamish at the thought of eating what some call “frankenfish,” or other genetically-modified animals, but writer Emily Anthes tells KIRO Radio’s Ross and Burbank Show that we ...

A Massachusetts-based biotech company says its transgenic salmon are almost ready for market. A genetically modified salmon will become the first GM food animal to go on sale in the US, according to ...