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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In A Nutshell • A pig kidney with just one genetic modification functioned in a human for 61 days before being removed as ...