"Genetic Engineering" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Directed modification of the gene complement of a living organism by such techniques as altering the DNA, substituting genetic material by means of a virus, transplanting whole nuclei, transplanting cell hybrids, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D005818
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.393.420
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| Concept/Terms |
Genetic Engineering- Genetic Engineering
- Genetic Intervention
- Intervention, Genetic
- Genetic Interventions
- Interventions, Genetic
- Engineering, Genetic
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Genetic Engineering" by people in this website by year, and whether "Genetic Engineering" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Genetic Engineering" by people in Profiles.
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Advances in biocontainment strategies of engineered microbes for use in humans. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2026 Jun; 91:102727.
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A Genetically-Engineered Thyroid Gland Built for Selective Triiodothyronine Secretion. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Jul 24; 26(15).
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Engineered Membrane Vesicle Production via oprF or oprI Deletion Has Distinct Phenotypic Effects in Pseudomonas putida. ACS Synth Biol. 2025 07 18; 14(7):2739-2752.
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Designing live bacterial therapeutics for cancer. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2025 06; 221:115579.
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Assessing and engineering the IscB-?RNA system for programmed genome editing. Nat Chem Biol. 2024 Dec; 20(12):1617-1628.
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Cas9-assisted biological containment of a genetically engineered human commensal bacterium and genetic elements. Nat Commun. 2024 03 07; 15(1):2096.
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Genetic Engineering of Resident Bacteria in the Gut Microbiome. J Bacteriol. 2023 07 25; 205(7):e0012723.
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Engineered yeast tune down gut inflammation. Nat Med. 2021 Jul; 27(7):1150-1151.
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Dissection of the Fgf8 regulatory landscape by in vivo CRISPR-editing reveals extensive intra- and inter-enhancer redundancy. Nat Commun. 2021 01 19; 12(1):439.
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The COMET toolkit for composing customizable genetic programs in mammalian cells. Nat Commun. 2020 02 07; 11(1):779.