In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

“Nearly three-quarters of emerging viruses that infect humans come from animals,” Stephanie Seifert, an expert in viral emergence and cross species transmission who helped lead the research, said in a ...