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

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

Findings also confirmed that a pig kidney can effectively serve as a replacement for a human kidney. Researchers have ...

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

Penn and CHOP researchers want to develop urea cycle disorder treatments using CRISPR gene-editing therapy. Get unlimited access to Inquirer.com and The Inquirer App, plus 5 articles each month to ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.

Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Beam Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAM), a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, today announced that the company will present updated safety and efficacy ...

Bodies keep being recovered from the bayous around Houston. Why officials are convinced it’s not the work of a serial killer A Massive New Study of 20,000 Adults Says This Is What Happens When You ...

Imagine tweaking the DNA of Hawaiian songbirds so they no longer die from the avianmalaria that has wiped out half of the islands’ native bird species. Or altering the genes of amphibians, so they can ...