We all love a good success story. The triumph, the glory, the moment when everything clicks into place.But here's the thing: some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in human history started with ...

The genetic engineering of 3000 sheep in NZ in the 1990s didn’t end particularly well. The ‘biopharming’ of plants, however, has a lot more potential, writes Laura Baal.

In the mid-1980s, an article in a popular science magazine that talked about genetic engineering—recombinant DNA technologies, cloning, and related advances—caught my attention as a high schooler in ...