How to Use genetic engineering in a Sentence

genetic engineering

noun
  • The crops were made resistant to disease by genetic engineering.
  • This may soon extend to the genetic engineering of wheat and rice.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • And whether saving a tree through genetic engineering makes a forest more wild, or less so.
    — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
  • And with the power of genetic engineering, some plants go above and beyond.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • The children of the rich are the ones who would benefit from genetic engineering of some type.
    — Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • Their approach could unlock a trove of new genetic engineering tools.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Unless genetic engineering can one day be perfected, changes in genes are hard-wired.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • These tenets tap at the heart of the debate surrounding genetic engineering.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The first attempt to control the muscles relied on a bit of genetic engineering.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In the end, what saved the papaya was genetic engineering (GE).
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The 4-minute mile of human genetic engineering has been broken.
    — Josiah Zayner, STAT, 2 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • So in this study, scientists turned to genetic engineering to improve on nature.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • That changed when the team gave these mice an experimental cancer drug that could block the enzyme much the way genetic engineering had.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • How bad could the situation get with the concept of genetic engineering?
    — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Researchers plan to identify the culprit and then try to remove it using genetic engineering.
    — Jason Gale / Bloomberg, TIME, 16 May 2024
  • Researchers are studying the biology of these fillet bones to see whether they might one day be removed through breeding or genetic engineering.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The tried and true tools of genetic engineering simply can't handle long stretches of DNA.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Need a quick refresher on genetic engineering?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • This catchall term often means genetic engineering – introducing new genes to an organism.
    — Berly McCoy, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That would reduce mosquito bites in the short term — only females bite — and open the door to shrinking wild populations through genetic engineering.
    — Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, 3 Apr. 2019
  • The scientists behind the initiative say their work could help reserve the effects of climate change and advance genetic engineering.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
  • While such a feat was possible before with genetic engineering, multiple outlets reported that the researchers were able to grow the egg cells using the skin cells of two male mice.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2023

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