Maxine Singer, a molecular biologist who helped map the inner workings of DNA and led seminal debates ... risks and ethical implications of genetic engineering, died July 9 at her home in Washington.

The recombinant DNA letter focused on the risk of accidentally creating novel fatal diseases. Opponents of genetic engineering broadened that concern into various disaster scenarios: a genocidal ...

But before Harvard could build a laboratory to do it, University scientists had to overcome entrenched fears that this form of genetic engineering — recombinant DNA technology — would produce ...

creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. The achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of ...

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

An example was his realization that the genetic engineering technique ... coli, creating a shared strand of DNA. The process became popularly known as recombinant DNA. Berg planned to smuggle ...

“I had publishable data documenting the highly efficient synthesis of SV40-lambda-gal recombinant DNA by the beginning of June 1972, a month and a half after I did my first ligation!” Mertz’s work ...

Genetic engineering uses enzymes to carefully alter genetic material ... who became the first to use recombinant DNA. Berg died on February 15 at 96 years old. Born to Jewish Russian immigrants in ...

in the case of genetic engineering, a template with regions of homology flanking the region to be altered. HDR is also slower than NHEJ and, unlike NHEJ, only really works in proliferating cells, as ...