This is a classic article from New Scientist’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
FOLLOWING hard on the suggestion of Nobel laureate Dr Edward Tatum that “genetic engineering” might soon be possible in higher animals comes what seems to be the first definite news of changes evolved by deliberate genetic manipulation of any organism more complex than a bacterium. It comes from Dr A. S. Fox and Dr S. B. Yoon of the University of Wisconsin and relates to the much-studied fruit fly, Drosophila (Genetics, vol 53, p 897).
These workers took eggs containing Drosophila…
