Stanford's Drew Endy is an engineer's biologist. He doesn't like to wonder at the messy world of evolved systems; he likes to create new tools for building organisms that do stuff for humans. His ...

After years of debate around the issue of labelling of genetically modified or engineered foods the Codex Committee on Food Labelling has decided to abandon work on a definition of the term ...

Thanks to a number of high-profile news items over the past decadeDolly the cloned sheep, genetically modified food products, stem cell researchthe average person today probably knows more about the ...