Genetic manipulation – or gene editing – is a concept that describes altering the genetic material (DNA) of an organism.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018, Chinese ...

Explore CRISPR technology explained, gene editing science, DNA modification, and genetic engineering ethics—discover how ...

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...

Sydney Brenner, biologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for Medicine, says many of the current attempts to “improve” the human race through genetic manipulation are “ridiculous” and he ...

Recent advances in the transplantation of stem cell-derived insulin-producing beta cells (SC-beta cells) to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) has generated considerable interest and excitement. A major ...

A new study shows, for the first time, that cow cells can naturally become immortal—continuing to divide indefinitely without genetic modification or any abnormal transformation. This overturns ...

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A pig kidney with one genetic change functioned in a brain-dead human for 61 days, more than doubling previous records.