Sentence examples for modified genetic material from inspiring English sources

Viruses are also used as vectors (agents that carry and introduce modified genetic material into an organism) in DNA technology.

So even if no other humans are legally able to be created this way in the future, we've already introduced biologically modified genetic material into the population with the potential to affect large swaths of future generations to come via reproduction.

The court ruled unanimously that patents on raw DNA the natural DNA found in the human body were invalid, while upholding patent protections for modified genetic material, including complementary DNA, or cDNA, which is synthetically created.

The modified genetic material suffered significantly less damage, they report today in Nature Communications.

What modified genetic material does in the body that eats it, and how much it matters is of course a topic of much debate.

In the past decade researchers have begun modifying genetic material for applications like drugs and the growth of fuels.

He added that Paradigm Genetics, a biotechnology concern in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is another business that is not modifying genetic material but is aiming at the crop production market, though as part of a larger business strategy.

In other words, it is theoretically possible to modify genetic material that codes hereditary characteristics, potentially giving people the power to control specific traits passed down to children.

About 90 percent of the corn grown in the United States comes from seeds that have been engineered in a laboratory, their DNA modified with genetic material not naturally found in corn species.

Genetic research has lately progressed so far that, this year, a group of scientists and practitioners gathered in Napa, California, to urge a ban on modifying the genetic material of human sperm, eggs, and embryos, a process known as germline editing.

He would then have seen that the patent infringes the directive on bio-patents on two counts, firstly because the patent protection extends to include a procedure for modifying human genetic material and, secondly, because the patent protection extends to include the use of embryos for commercial and industrial purposes.