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 ...
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...
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Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time Ever
Facing a shortage of organs needed by tens of thousands of patients, scientists have been studying pig organs as a potential ...
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 ...
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Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby
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 ...
Scientists have kept a genetically modified pig kidney working inside a brain-dead man for 61 days – and successfully ...
Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...
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