Genetic Engineering

This specialization covers deliberately altering an organism's genetic material: restriction enzymes, vectors and host systems, cloning and library construction, expression of recombinant proteins in bacterial, yeast, insect and mammalian systems, site-directed mutagenesis, gene silencing, genome editing with CRISPR-Cas and its predecessors, and transgenic plants and animals. Biosafety levels, containment and the ethics and regulation of the work are treated as part of it.