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 ...

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 ...

Organ transplantation of genetically modified animals to humans is currently not safe. This was announced on January 19 by ...

(NewsNation) — A Silicon Valley startup is drawing scrutiny for allegedly attempting to genetically engineer human embryos. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working ...

Australian scientists have criticised as "gung-ho" an experimental US infertility treatment which has set off a controversy surrounding the genetic modification of humans. The comments follow ...