A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

Interestingly, scientists have been up to some weird stuff over the years, and thanks to them, people can now buy a ...

Manyplants we eat today are a result of genetic modifications that would never occur in nature. Scientists have long been altering the genes of food crops, to boost food production and to make crops ...

An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Testing in an animal model found that the modified ...

Humans have become very good at altering the basic building blocks of life to their advantage. Genetically modified foods are available at most grocery stores. Researchers use gene-editing tools every ...

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent ...

A new technique developed by researchers from Macquarie University and the California Institute of Technology described in Nature Communications on 13 August could allow scientists to more simply and ...

Overcoming water and food stress will be a big challenge for India as it becomes a Viksit Bharat. As India charts its path toward becoming a developed nation by 2047, few challenges loom as large as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers hope that by genetically engineering the mice to be immune to Lyme – and then releasing them on Nantucket – the ...