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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered and then overcome an obstacle that has led to the failure of pioneering efforts in ...

Hordes of feral cats terrorizing native species in Australia could be combatted using a special type of genetic engineering, scientists have suggested. The feral cats now number over six million, and ...