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 ...

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Scientists are making historic progress in xenotransplantation, using genetically modified pig organs for human transplants.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new tools to edit the genes of human embryos, in a report issued a day before a major ...

An international group of 67 scientists announced at a news conference on Wednesday that they had mapped the genome of the closest relative to human beings, the chimpanzee. Their work is scheduled to ...

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in Boston said Thursday. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering ...

The 62-year-old man had diabetes, hypertension and previously underwent kidney surgery Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons in Massachusetts have become the first to complete a ...