the.com/genetic engineering
Editing the manual of life, typos and all, on purpose this time.
means The deliberate alteration of an organism's DNA to change its traits, by inserting, deleting, or editing specific genes.
from 'Genetic' traces back to the Greek 'genesis,' meaning origin or production, picked up by 19th-century biology to describe heredity. 'Engineering' comes from Latin 'ingenium' — natural talent or cleverness — via the old 'engine,' a device built by ingenuity. The phrase itself is a 20th-century coinage, born once scientists could actually splice and recombine DNA rather than just breed and wait: suddenly the language of bridges and machines got borrowed for the language of cells, because this was invention, not just inheritance.
- first success
- bacteria made human insulin in 1978
- tool of choice
- CRISPR cuts DNA like precise scissors
- golden rice
- engineered to fight vitamin A blindness
- ethical catch
- editing embryos edits all future descendants