The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has written to the leaders of 70 universities reminding them to comply with the agency’s regulations on research to create transgenic animals with desired traits.

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 ...

Manipulations of the mouse genome have yielded tremendous advances for biomedical research. With the ever-increasing use of mice as animal models for disease, ensuring humane animal care and ...

Recent advances in the manipulation of the mouse genome have resulted in an increasingly large population of genetically engineered mice (GEM). This can be seen in the exponential growth of transgenic ...

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 ...