0 the process of changing the structure of the genes of a living thing in order to make it healthier, stronger, or more useful to humans
1 the process of scientifically changing the genes of plants and animals in order to create forms of them that are less likely to get diseases, will grow faster, etc.:
Several environmental groups object strongly to genetic modification, saying that it could have disatrous consequences that no-one can predict.
Genetic modification of the vaccine strain aims at reducing the risk of spread or persistence in the environment while at the same time inducing an adaptive immune response.
Dairy goats are a useful system for producing human therapeutics in their milk by genetic modification.
Human beings can no longer be thought of as fundamentally equal because genetic modification will introduce permanent differences that cannot be transcended by cultural interventions.
Some of these public concerns about genetic modification of animals may be based on lack of information.
This unambiguously establishes that the nuclei of cultured rat cells can support development of enucleated rat eggs even following genetic modification.
Typical examples relate to nuclear power generation, railway travel, or the genetic modification of organisms.
As concern about the environmental risks of genetic modification waned, congressional attention turned elsewhere.
Consequently, the agency advocated a process-based approach that would capture all substances produced through genetic modification.
