Enlarge / Artist’s impression of a post-superbug world. (This is the cover art for Stephen King’s The Stand, a story wherein a genetically enhanced superflu causes the end of the…
Enlarge / Normal rice (bottom), the first version of golden rice (right), and the current strain (left). (credit: Environmental Health Perspectives/NIH) One of the arguments that has been advanced to…
Enlarge / Like any other E. coli, but different. (credit: CDC) The genetic code is the basis for all life, allowing the information present in DNA to be translated into…