A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

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The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Transferring one species to another is how to create genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. This creates something not ...

Bill Gates's comments on genetics as "code" have reignited debate over genetic engineering, intellectual property, and the ...

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Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent powerful tools for modelling early human embryogenesis and provide a source of differentiated cells for use in regenerative medicine. The assurance of ...

Every once in a while, I like to share some of the feedback readers send me, and encourage you to send me feedback too! Here are two letters I received recently. The first one is a response to my ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...