Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences ...

Imagine a world where the very essence of life—genes, species, and the building blocks of nature—can be claimed, bought, and ...

The researchers modified human cells in culture to switch off two of the repair ... Only when the backup is also switched off ...

Genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification ... genetically modified organisms into the environment Ethical concerns surrounding the modification of human embryos and the potential for ...

New methods using DNA from living humans, however, have opened a clearer window into our past. Researchers at the University of Cambridge studied genetic information collected from diverse groups ...

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

This allows researchers to trace waves of human populations as they spread throughout the world -- particularly in Eurasia, where most of this type of genetic sequencing has been happening ...

This limitation has made non-human primates an essential model for biomedical research. However, genetic modification of these primates has been challenging. For example, conventional virus-based ...

A multidisciplinary team from China has successfully transplanted a gene-modified pig liver into a human recipient diagnosed with brain death. During a 10-day observation period, the porcine liver ...