Genetics

A strain of rice genetically engineered to protect against diarrhoeal disease could offer a cost-effective way to protect children in developing countries, according a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation yesterday (8 August).

Genetic engineering has, at long last, made it possible to imagine a world without rhinoplasty.

So glad I live in the midwest! ...

Harvard geneticist George Church recently told Der Spiegel he's close to developing the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal, at which point all he'd need is an "adventurous human woman" — einen abenteuerlustigen weiblichen Menschen — to act as a surrogate mother.

Someone once asked me if beards were a recessive trait or a dominant trait. I simply laughed in his face.