How to Use genetic engineering in a Sentence

genetic engineering

noun

• The crops were made resistant to disease by genetic engineering.
• This is not to say that everything done in the name of genetic engineering has a clean bill of health.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• The children of the rich are the ones who would benefit from genetic engineering of some type.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2018
• This may soon extend to the genetic engineering of wheat and rice.
  — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
• In the end, what saved the papaya was genetic engineering (GE).
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2019
• This microbe no longer needs to eat food to grow, thanks to a bit of genetic engineeringImagine never having to sit—or pay—for a meal again.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2019
• And with the power of genetic engineering, some plants go above and beyond.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• And whether saving a tree through genetic engineering makes a forest more wild, or less so.
  — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• The tried and true tools of genetic engineering simply can't handle long stretches of DNA.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
• The first attempt to control the muscles relied on a bit of genetic engineering.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• To verify that the neutrophils were triggering PCD in the spores, the researchers turned to genetic engineering.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
• These tenets tap at the heart of the debate surrounding genetic engineering.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
• The list of extinct species that genetic engineering company Colossal wants to bring back to life is growing.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
• Many pundits simply assumed that genetic engineering would soon enable us to shed bad traits and add good ones.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2021
• What does the future look like with genetic engineering?
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
• And if fallow fields are used to grow biomass for carbon capture, Chu said, those plants should be optimized for growth through genetic engineering.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Arbor Acres was one of the first firms to use genetic engineering to develop chickens that were meatier, matured more quickly and laid more eggs.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• The 4-minute mile of human genetic engineering has been broken.
  — Josiah Zayner, STAT, 2 Jan. 2020
• Colossal has been working to bring the mammoth, the dodo bird and other extinct species back to life using the latest cloning and genetic engineering techniques.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• The achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of vaccines, like the messenger RNA versions used to counter the virus that causes Covid-19.
  — Don R. Hecker, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• This has led to accusations that biotech firms that plan these events have taken the wrong lesson, to say the very least, from genetic engineering cautionary tales like Jurassic Park.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
• The goal is to use genetic engineering to create a living elephant-mammoth hybrid that looks just like a woolly mammoth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
• In the two decades since Second Chance marked a genetic engineering milestone, cattle have secured a place on the front lines of biotechnology research.
  — Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2020
• How bad could the situation get with the concept of genetic engineering?
  — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Their approach could unlock a trove of new genetic engineering tools.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Unless genetic engineering can one day be perfected, changes in genes are hard-wired.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• The lab will preform genetic engineering using a virus and will have the cells multiply before freezing them and shipping back to the hospital, where they will be given to the patient via an IV.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 31 Aug. 2017
• Inside a brick and glass building in an office park, scientists start by using the latest genetic engineering techniques to edit the DNA in pig skin cells.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• Researchers plan to identify the culprit and then try to remove it using genetic engineering.
  — Jason Gale / Bloomberg, TIME, 16 May 2024
• What makes these cells so attractive to genetic engineering?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024