That’s just one of many examples of transgenic animals — genetically modified animals — out there. And it’s not just fish.

The animals are the first transgenic echinoderms, the phylum that includes starfish, sea cucumbers and other marine animals.

The yellow stingray is a marine species of ... More stingray in the family Urotrygonidae, found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Trinidad. (Credit: doi:10.1371/journal ...

Metro investigates whether we’re ready to eat genetically engineered animals as part of our regular diet.

Despite being caught up in regulatory proceedings for 15 years or more, AquAdvantage salmon, the first animal genetically engineered (GE) for food purposes, continues to raise concerns. Are any of ...

Sep. 13, 2021 — Usually, the individuals of a population of marine species that have the potential to disperse over long distances all share a similar genetic composition. Yet every now and then ...

Transgenic organisms are living beings whose genetic material has been artificially modified by introducing genes from another species. This process, known as transgenesis, allows for the transfer of ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has written to the leaders of 70 universities reminding them to comply with the agency’s regulations on research to create transgenic animals with desired ...

So far, the Marine Organismal Body Size Database includes the maximum size of some 85,200 marine species. Biologists have launched a database of marine animals’ body sizes that they say could help ...

A new study identified the presence of up to seven transgenic genes in single seeds of traditional, or “creole” corn from more than 1,000 samples collected in 10% of the towns in Brazil’s ...