Genetically engineered monkeys carrying a foreign gene that is passed on to their offspring provide a potentially valuable bridge between mouse models of disease and treatment for human disorders.

In an article published in the Biotechnology Journal in March this year, scientists from the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Northern Paraná (UNOPAR), and the University of Illinois, ...

During the transformation process that creates the GMO, the transgenic construct tends to undergo deletions, duplications, and rearrangements, integrating at unpredictable sites in the host cell ...

Transgene instability has been known at least since 1994 [1] (reviewed in Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare, p.140), though it is seldom, if ever, reported in the popular media. Transgenes (the ...