In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

In a first in medical history, Chinese doctors have successfully implanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a human being for the ... entailed massive gene modification to ensure the ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

Medical researchers helped tame a worldwide pandemic, but they may be powerless against the financial disease rapidly ...

The study shows that injecting gold nanoparticles into the eye and stimulating them with infrared lasers can activate retinal ...

Transplanting an animal organ into a human is now a closer reality following the successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a patient diagnosed with brain death in China.

For instance, a number of microorganisms are being considered ... 2003). Genetically modified animals have even been used to grow transplant tissues and human transplant organs, a concept called ...

Joe Rogan was left in shock after a biotech billionaire laid bare how China is 'engineering babies' using gene-editing technology. Ben Lamm, co-founder of Colossal Biosciences - which just ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by a human immune system. The organ successfully ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3. ... "When people read about repairing genetic material, they often ...