Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...
Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman of OpenAI and Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong are among the notable names investing ...
A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.
Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...
Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...
Facing a shortage of organs needed by tens of thousands of patients, scientists have been studying pig organs as a potential ...
Scientists have kept a genetically modified pig kidney working inside a brain-dead man for 61 days – and successfully ...