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 ...

Last summer I had a meeting in my office in Northwestern University's Technological Institute, the home of our Master of Science in Biotechnology program (MBP), with the daughter of a professional ...

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 ...