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 ...

As opposed to surgery, "an intravitreal injection is one of the simplest procedures in ophthalmology," said the lead ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are ethical issues involved in genetic modification, as well as concerns ... term studies to check for adverse reactions in both humans and the environment.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...